Oldest/First “Moving Picture”
There is nothing more moving than seeing a moving picture. Today, our high-quality cameras and technology allow our motion pictures to be larger than life with CGI, animation, and top-of-the-line graphics. But when it first came out, the simplicity of the moving picture still captured the hearts and minds of people all over the world. We already saw the beginning of moving pictures with the debut of “The Horse in Motion”, but this took it a step further in the movie world.
The Roundhay Garden Scene, a short film shot by French inventor Louis Le Prince, is considered the earliest surviving motion picture by the Guinness Book of Records. Le Prince made the film using a single lens camera and Eastman’s paper film at 12 frames per second and runs for 2.11 seconds. According to Le Prince’s son, Adolphe, it was filmed at Oakwood Grange, the home of Joseph and Sarah Whitley, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England on October 14, 1888. You can see the actual moving picture on YouTube.
