2007-03-21 13:42:38 · 2 answers · asked by mommatess 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Not sure - maybe Birth of a Nation - although silents did movies like 3 Muskateers and Nosferatu ... tough question. Let me research. Pax - C.
Looks like this one - -1899 The French magician Georges Melies became the film industry's first film-maker to use artificially-arranged scenes to construct and tell a narrative story, with Cendrillon (aka Cinderella). Melies wrote, designed, directed, and acted in hundreds of his own fairy tales and science fiction films, and developed techniques such as stop-motion photography, double and multiple-exposures, and fades.
2007-03-21 13:50:09 · answer #1 · answered by Persiphone_Hellecat 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
About as long as people have been making movies, they've based them on books.
For example, in 1922 the silent film "Nosferatu" was based on "Dracula" by Bram Stoker. The book was first published in 1897.
I did try to look up books made into movies to see if I could find the first one, but I couldn't find anything definitive. Maybe a book on the history of films and/or filmmaking would help answer this question?
2007-03-21 20:52:58 · answer #2 · answered by Kate 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋