what was the first motion picture ever made? and how would you go about watching it?

Answer 1

<>The first film ever copyrighted shows an employee of Edison's, Fred Ott, who is pretending to sneeze...."Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze" in 1894.

Answer 2

CrabbyPat's answer is substantially correct--Train Coming Into a Station was the first commercially projected motion picture. Slightly less than a minute long, it startled and nearly-panicked its first audiences who had never seen a life-like train seemingly coming down a track straight at them! (Even without sound or color!)
Kino Video, I believe, has a DVD with several examples of very, very early films, including the Lumiere Bros. first program of short films, which includes the train, as well as the first comedy, about a boy who squirts a gardener with a garden hose and gets caught and spanked. Check Amazon.com or IMDB for availability.
If you want to get really, really picky about it, the first motion picture (non-projected) was a series of photos taken by Edward Muybridge to settle a bet that a horse in full gallop never takes all four feet off the ground. Muybridge set up a row of cameras at a racing track which the horse triggered as it passed, which eventually produced the image that won the wager for the four-feet-off-the-ground side of the bet. When placed in sequence and flipped through quickly, the horse appeared to be galloping as you watched!
The points belong to CrabbyPat. The information is yours!

Answer 3

"The Oberammergau Passion Play of 1898 was the first commercial motion picture ever produced. Other pictures soon followed, and motion pictures became a separate industry that overshadowed the vaudeville world. Dedicated theaters and companies formed specifically to produce and distribute films, while motion picture actors became major celebrities and commanded huge fees for their performances. Already by 1917, Charlie Chaplin had a contract that called for an annual salary of one million dollars."
this is from the "en-wikepedia.org" site it is very informative not sure how you would go about viewing it though

Answer 4

"Train Pulling Into A Station", shot by the Lumière brothers in 1895, was the first film ever publicly shown with moving images depicting a train arriving at Marseille Station. "Fred Ott's Sneeze"(1894), became the very first copyrighted motion picture. Unfortunately neither film is the first film ever made. The worlds first motion picture was, "The Roundhay Garden Scene". Filmed in 1888, it featured Adolphe Le Prince, Sarah Whitley, Joseph Whitley and Harriet Hartley walking around and laughing. Here you go. Enjoy!!!

Fred Ott's Sneeze
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PaJ1r0udvQ

The Roundhay Garden Scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1i40rnpOsA

Answer 5

The Lumiere brothers produced something they called "Train coming into a station" which is just a train coming into a station. That is about it for the first film. Don't let the Edison fans tell you that it was "Fred Ott's sneeze" We've come a long way since then eh?

I have no idea where you would see it. I saw it in film school

Answer 6

Probably "A Trip to the Moon" or something. You'd go about watching it lots of No Doz so you won't fall asleep.