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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Beautiful, moving film.

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This two seconds of film is thought to be the very first motion picture, using Louis Le Prince's single-lens camera and Eastman's paper film. It features the earliest born (but not the oldest) person ever to be in a film, Sarah Robinson Whitley, who was born in 1816. She was also the first person featured in a motion picture to die, as she did so just ten days after this film was made on October 24, 1888. She was Louis Le Prince's mother-in-law.Then there is the mystery surrounding Louis Le Prince's death/disappearance. He disappeared from a train in 1890, planning to make a trip to the United States to demonstrate his techniques. His body and luggage were never found, and legends surrounding his disappearance include the theory that Edison had him killed so that he could take credit for inventing the motion picture. A huge court battle ensued in the United States over that title and the right to collect royalties, first won by Edison against the Le Prince family, but then that court decision was overturned.There was actually a book written on the subject of the disappearance of Le Prince and how the pioneers of cinema were involved in all kinds of backstabbing - "The Missing Reel". I recommend it as not the best book ever written, but about the only work in writing on the subject.

It's lasts barely longer than it takes to say the title, but this short black and white film—shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince in 1888 and reputedly the first film ever made—is a highly influential work, one that, even today, resonates in the work of several contemporary film-makers.Hollywood powerhouses Michael Bay and Tony Scott regularly employ Le Prince's 'no shot longer than two seconds' technique in their action sequences, whilst this year's The Artist successfully resurrected Roundhay's silent black and white aesthetic and bagged a clutch of Oscars as a result.Today's movie fans sure owe a lot to Monsieur Le Prince and his tea-party guests.

No words can describe it. Incredible.All "movie fans" HAVE to see this, to keep watching movies, IMHO. If you can't even spare 2 seconds to watch the film that started the modern medias you cherish dearly today, or if you do watch it and do not even like it, with all due respect, never allow yourself to watch a film ever again.And you'd better run on here and give it a 10 out of 10 rating, because if you like movies(everyone does) it is YOUR obligation.Now, on a humorous note, a brief summary(gonna be hard to do this, after all it has such a long running length): Out in the garden of the Whitley family house in Oakwood Grange Road, Roundhay, a suburb of Leeds, Yorkshire was a family. A most peculiar family, if you ask me. For a frame, all is happy.Then at the end of the epic First Act, an entire second into the picture(a whole second! Eek!"), we are confronted with a horrid conflict: our leading lady struggles to turn her legs as to turn around. After two frames of a long saga that is the Second Act, she soon looks upon the people around her, laughs, and remembers once again the ancient art of walking. Act Two has finished, Act Three dawns. For this entire couple of frames, we see the man that had been distracting her from walking all along about to pass her by...MWWUUUHHHAAAAHHHHA......Hehe! It's brilliant. Something so simple has become so influential. Le Prince would never have thought once what these animated strips of film would become later on...if only he could see film now. Would he like the Kingdom of Hollywood, or scream in terror upon learning what evil it has become?

I have a very hard time tracking down this for an essay I was writing for English class.It is very hard to believe how far we have come with movies,this being why.This is by far,the shortest movie ever produced in cinema history,next to Traffic On Leeds Bridge,which was as short as this.I don't get why people rated this so poorly,being those that rated this a 1-5.This was the late 1800s of course.And it's pretty damn impressive,compared to these 3-D IMax action flicks we have now,that is filled with CGI and explosions.I give this 10 stars.This was the mother of all movies,and of course one of the first surviving ones.