2. The first film
The earliest surviving film ever recorded was Louis Le
Prince’s Roundhay Garden Scene which only lasts
2.11 seconds, and has no sound, and was recorded in
1888. Unlike the Lumière brothers who claimed the
title cinematographer, who came after them, Le Prince
never showed his film publically.
3. The Sound Era
In 1926, Warner Bros. released the ‘vitaphone’, which
was capable of playing both video and sound – the
next year, they released the first film to feature
synchronised dialogue and singing in a film: The Jazz
Singer. At the time, they were known as talking
pictures, or ‘talkies’.
4. Colour Film
Due to the variety of different techniques used to
create coloured film, the one earliest known coloured
film is La Vie et la passion du Jesus Christ – a French
film made by Pathé Frères in 1903, before
synchronised sound.
5. The First Cinema
Thomas Edison made a crucial decision to sell a
number of Vitascopes as a business venture, and as a
result, the Mark brothers opened up the first real
cinema (in that it was specifically built for this purpose)
to the public in 1896 – they were then known as
Vitascope theatres. L’idéal cinéma – Jacques Tati is
the oldest cinema that is still running, since 1902.
