The first film artist in film history was called an American filmmaker.

Mei Li 'ai (186 1 ~ 1938) is a French film director. The world's first film artist. 186 1 was born in Paris on February 8th, 1938 1 died in the same place. He used to be a stage magician, and later set up a photography studio in Montreuil, which is the earliest studio in the world. Here he used special actors, scenery, props, makeup and other means to shoot movies, which opened up a completely different film creation path from Lumiere's natural realism. His first film was The Dreyfus Case (1899). He is best at shooting fairy tales by stopping to shoot again and changing the scenery, such as Cinderella, Bluebeard, magic lamp, Arabian Nights and so on. At the beginning of the 20th century, he first created sci-fi movies, such as A Journey to the Moon, Two Wan Li under the Sea and beyond the arctic. In particular, A Journey to the Moon has a great influence, which not only establishes the style of science fiction films, but also determines the position of film rehearsal in film production. Mei's film is the first step for film to become an art.