The oldest surviving film is two seconds of a family walking in a garden

According to Boing Boing, the oldest surviving film is called Roundhay Garden Scene. French inventor Louis Le Prince filmed his family walking in a garden in Roundhay, Leeds on October fourteenth, eighteen eighty-eight. The entire film runs two seconds. That's all that remains of cinema's first moment.

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