Blink and it's gone. "Roundhay Garden Scene" is a 2-second (yep!) film from 1888, so it's over 125 years old. Impressive. It is black-and-white, silent and was made by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince. Now he may not possess the popularity or fame of Georges Méliès or the most prominent other very early filmmakers, but you have to admit that he explored the entirely medium of movies way before they did. In these 2 seconds, you see a handful people and it looks like they are not exactly poor judging from the clothes they wear, I read that the people in here are actually relatives of the director, all of them or almost all of them. It's probably interesting for people who live in that area to visit the place where this was made and take a look at what it looks like today. I cannot really recommend it to general audiences, for this the contents are just too insignificant, but it's certainly worth a watch for film history buffs like myself.
Review of Roundhay Garden Scene
