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First Movie in the world – The Arrival of a Train (1896) (the-classic-movies.com)
1 point by zinderssss on Jan 1, 2021 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



The category and description suggests that there are other films of similar format up to a year earlier than this one.

Either way, this is interesting. It reminds me that it wasn't so far away from the time that photographs took so long that movement would make things disappear or look ghostly. So this must have been quite a technological advance at the time.

EDIT: I just realized the site isn't complete yet, and this is actually the only film there. It'll be interesting once fleshed out with some content. Seems a bit too early to be posting it here unless it was presented as a SHOW HN post.




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