what was the very first movie ever made called?

Answer 1

The first movie ever made featured a galloping horse.
That was it.

Thomas Edison's first movie was a strongman flexing his
muscles. That was it.

http://www.kino.com/edison/

The Lumiere Bros. were the first to seek a paying audience to watch their 'cinema'. Their first public screening of movies at which admission was charged was held on December 28, 1895, at Paris's Salon Indien du Grand Café. This historical screening was based on their first film, the 45-second-long Sortie de l'usine Lumière à Lyon (Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_and_Louis_Lumi%C3%A8re


The Great Train Robbery was the first film to tell a story in the U.S.



Here are a bunch of similar 'early movies' for your entertainment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1i40rnpOsA

Answer 2

At the turn of the 19th century, inventor Thomas Edison's assistant, W.K. Laurie Dickenson, combined a motion picture camera with a viewing system called a kinetoscope. He also directed the construction of the world's first movie studio, called the "Black Maria." The world's first short films "Buffalo Bill's Shooting Skill" and "Boxing Cats" were produced there. By 1892, people could see these films at mini-theatres called Kinetoscope Parlors.

1927's The Jazz Singer was the first movie to use sound. In the film, actor Al Olsen spoke the first words ever to be heard by audiences: "Wait a minute, you ain't heard nothing yet!"

Answer 3

Le Voyage Dans La Lune (A Trip To The Moon) (1902), D: Georges Melies
One of the earliest experiments in film, a short science-fiction tale of a space ship launched to the moon (a huge smiling face).

Answer 4

great question....the first large scale film w/ wide cinema distribution was Griffiths' Birth of a Nation (circa 1915). but I'm sure there were some legit films before it

Answer 5

la sortie de l'usine,par les Frères Lumière,in 1895