Its made in the same year as "Roundhay Garden Scene" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392728/) in 1888. One of two of the oldest films made. I guess that is because it is the first of two films on a kind of film strip rather than a cinematograph machine (i think thats the name.. the thing whcih looks like a merry go round)
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Nah, it's brand new compared to the real ancient ones. There is one of Homer making a musical adaptation of the Odyssey, there are a lots of funky dancing and a well choreographed dancing shots thanks to the Ancient Greece dance teachers. I think it is around 3000 years old. Sad there is not a copy available anymore.
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Don't be silly, Homer was said to have lived around 900BC, that is only 2900 years ago so the film you speak of is probably fake. In any case he was notably camera shy, and his poetry never translated well to the silver screen, particularly in the early silent movies.
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Roundhay Garden Scene is a bit older. (Like said made in the same year.)
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Among some of the oldest surviving film perhaps. I highly doubt that the concept of film wasn't thought of in ancient times. It may have been possible that photography was independently developed and then lost over the years. I've read some interesting arguments that Leonardo da Vinci was working on a unique series of photographic technologies. Whether or not he was capable of manipulating these images into a cinematic form is debatable, but I wouldn't be very surprised if he managed to pull it off.
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There's a lot of misconceptions about this topic that I can clear up for you. I hope you read this, although it's unlikely since you started this forum in 2005.
The first "film" was after this.
It's not any of the following:
I. Passage De Venus (1874):http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3155794/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1.
II. Sallie Gardner At A Gallop (1878): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2221420/
III. Man Walking Around The Corner (1887): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2075247/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
In fact, NONE OF THESE PREVIOUS EFFORTS ARE EVEN A FILM!
I. This one was just 6 photographs which computers turned into a film almost 100 years later
II. This one was just 24 photographs which computers turned into a film almost 100 years later
III. This one was an attempt by the inventor of the movie to make a movie. Ultimately, it was unsuccessful. He used 16 lenses in one camera, each one taking a photo in the span of a second or so. The result was instead 16 separate photos, and a failure. He realized he needed to make it one lens and eventually created the real first movie one year later.
Speaking of which, you should check out the real first movie
Roundhay Garden Scene (1888): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0392728/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_2
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