What was the first movie in the world and when was it born?

The scene of Roundhay Garden, shot at 1888, is the first IMDb-certified film in human history.

This is a black-and-white silent documentary directed by Louis Lee Prince and starring Adolphe Le Prince, Sarah Whitley, Joseph Whitley and Harriet Hartley Harriet Hartley. The scene of Langdehai Garden is a silent film without music, which records a group of people doing some funny actions in the garden.

The scene of Langdehai Garden allows people to truly see the real life experiences of people in the19th century, as well as their appearance and costumes. More importantly, this film is their selfie. Although this movie only lasts for 2 seconds, you can still clearly see the walking posture of the characters in the movie.

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1. Director background: Louis Lee Prince was born in Metz. Since he was a child, he often went to the studio of Daguerre, his father's good friend and pioneer of photography, to study photography and chemistry. He then went to Paris to study painting, and then went to Leipzig University to study chemistry. Prince has worked in Britain and the United States, so he has dual citizenship of France and the United States.

This film was shown in the factory and manor of Prince Yue's parents in Leeds, but it was not shown in public.

3. The film makes "death" a topic that can be discussed-Sarah Whitley, one of the characters in the short film, died ten days later, and Prince himself mysteriously disappeared during the train trip from Dijon to Paris in September 1890, leaving no traces of bodies and luggage, which became a mystery in the history of the film.

There are different opinions about his disappearance, some say that he committed suicide because of economic pressure, and some say that he was assassinated because of fighting for the patent right of film technology ... More than a century later, in 2003, someone found a photo in the police file, which was a drowning man, possibly Prince.