A few facts about early cinema…
- 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
