Oldest film on imdb?


is this the oldest film imdb has record of i have tried to find the oldest one and this was the oldest oone i could think of

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Certainly not. If you look at Melies's list of movies, they go back to 1896. I think by searching by year, you'll probably find the earliest movie in the archive.

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According to the search here, the oldest films listed are on this page:
http://www.imdb.com/List?year=1892

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http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0361921/ and its two "sequels", both from 1890

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A link to one from 1888, and you'll be hard pressed to find an earlier once, since it is credited as the first film ever made

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392728/

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It is considered the first ever Sci-Fi movie though.

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You can view the garden scene from 1888 here, http://www.nmpft.org.uk/insight/info/roundhay.mov credited as the oldest moving picture and oldest on the database.

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what films was your grandma in?
who was she?

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Yeah but may i point out that this is the oldest surviving film on celluloid (now digital converted no longer existing on film) i'm sure that there have been many older films possibly dating to as far back as 1860 when experiments on motion pictures began.

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oldest surviving film on celluloide? are you sure? at least 1000 of the Lumiere films made before the 20th century exist (or are those on a different form of film?)

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I think its a matter of what dates we are talking about I doun't think Lumier made any before that one.



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Wait....it looks like that the film you were referring to has been deleted by the poster. Could you inform me what film you were talking about (I thoguht you were talking about Trip to the Moon)

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This GROUP IS about "Trip to the Moon"



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Yes, I know that, but I think YOYOKER was referring to a different film, as it would be stupid to say no Lumiere film was made before this one because the Lumiere actualities of the late 1890's were what inspired Melies.

1000 of the Lumiere films exist. I doubt the original negatives exist, so the surviving prints would be original celluloids from the 1890's. The first film was made in 1888 (Roundhay Garden Scene) and that was on Paper Prints. The first celluloid film was made following that year.

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No,it is only the title/tt0000417.

But I´ve found out...http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000001/ is from 1894,but http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000002/ is from 1892.Aren´t the older first in the IMDB?

I still haven´t found what I´m looking for

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The numbering pretty much random as far as I can tell.

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The oldest film were made in 1888. http://www.imdb.com/List?year=1888 Try 1887 manually, it'll return an error.

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Are we talking about actual movies with stories and scenes? Or just footage.

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I like the idea to see a movie made by guys of died before WW1 - this is a special feeling.

Do someone knows, if there are good books about the "film industry" in this time.

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Robert Sklar has written some good books on history of cinema in general.
"Film: an international history of the medium" is a very good book about cinema from the beginnings until the end of the nineties.

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Read "Cinema - Year By Year" has an excellent listing of the film's being made and information about the pre-war film industry.

http://www.geocities.com/melies61/

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their oldest film is Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)
i luv movies!!! maybe a little bit too much

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This is the link to that Roundhay Garden scene (1888), the oldest item listed on IMDb.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392728/

Trip to the Moon may not be the oldest, but it is certainly one of the oldest with a plot. It came out a year before The Great Train Robbery, often credited as the first "movie" (with a plot) made in the US.

So many movies, so little time.

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Sallie Gardner at a Gallop - 1880
Supposedly the first moving picture ever

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Passage De Venus 1874: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3155794/?ref_=tt_rec_tt






so many movies, so little time

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