The first ‘motion picture’ was filmed in 1888, Round Haye Garden Scene
However the first publicly screened film was by the Lumiere Bros in Paris in 1895
However, in 1878, the animated sequence The Horse in Motion was first invented
Some early films were hand coloured, but the first true colour film was released in 1909
Film is shot on celluloid film strips, and the illusion of movement is achieved by quickly feeding it through a projector at approximately 25 frames per second
Cinema originated in France in the late 19th century
The earliest films were under a minute long
The first commercial screening of a film was facilitated by the Lumiere brothers in 1895
However, arguably the first film was ‘The Galloping Horse’ by Eadweard Muybridge
However, this film was more of a flip book, and was exhibited at fayres, exhibitions, fairgrounds and arcades
