the oldest movie you have seen

[TheBlackSnow]

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[SanDiegoKid]

Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin)
Sergei Eisenstein - Director

A russian silent film made in 1925.

Any introductory film class worth the money will show this film. It, more than anything before it, used shapes and on-screen composition to create cuts in editing.

If I've seen anything older I can't think of it offhand. Plus, I had to study this one so it sticks out in my mind.

[rebirth]

I've seen that one(bride of frankenstein)...and a few other old ones...Bringing Up Baby (1938) and a few old John Waynes, as my dad collects John Wayne movies.

[Lehk]

I own the DVD of the 1927 "Metropolis" Silent film

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

Gone With The Wind (1939)

[mfgbypooter]

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916) Starring Douglas Fairbanks Sr. as a dope fiend detective named Coke Ennyday.

[infringer]

Annie Oakley Orignally 1894 I beleive the documentery...

Probably just clips of it edited in from the original on like the history channel or some crap... I cant recally but it was a documentry about annie oakley and as far as I can tell it was 1894 Debut according to IMDB...

-infringer-

[simon_says_horrible]

some Charlie Chaplin's movies

[Travis982]

Judith of Bethulia. (Dir.D.W. Griffith) 1914.

Story of Assyrians attacking Jews & Judith plays 5th columnist.

This is on old laserdisc.

I've also seen some of those Lumiere bros clips which were made in 1890s but they couldn't be called movies.

[wingnut2600]

The one that sticks out is Nanook of the North (1922) - but I am sure I have seen something older - most of us probably have

[Vampmon]

Maybe i have seen an older movie then this, but don't know the name, but the only oldest one i remember is Exorcist (1973) ...

[TheBlackSnow]

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[Potato]

Wizard of Oz is the oldest one I can think of... 1939.

[mfgbypooter]

Wizard of Oz is the oldest one I can think of... 1939.I just rewatched this the other day, only it was the one synchronized with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

[RACKnRAIL]

I haven't seen this, but it would appear to be the oldest movie.

Collaboration across 120 years yields "oldest" movie ever
In 1882, astronomer David Peck Todd shot 147 consecutive plates of the transit of Venus across the sky. Now, two modern astronomers at the Lick Observatory have scanned them and turned them into a Quicktime movie -- a film "shot" years before Edison made his first moving picture. This makes me wonder if we'll be able to pull off neat tricks like improvising stereoscopic, moving, and/or panoramic images of the present at some time in the future, say by pulling thousands of moblogged images of a single event off the net and using software to interpolate and assemble them.

Spurred by a reference in one of Todd's letters in Lick's Mary Lea Shane Archives, Bill Sheehan and I found all 147 negatives, still in good condition, at the observatory. To our knowledge, this collection of photos constitutes the most complete surviving record of a historical transit of Venus. As we looked at Todd's extensive sequence of images, we realized we could turn them into a movie. A similar thought may have occurred to Todd himself, for a number of his contemporaries were already making the first forays into chronophotography — the recording of sequential motion and the forerunner of cinematography. Indeed, Pierre Jules Janssen invented his famous photographic revolver to capture the 1874 transit of Venus.

[TheBlackSnow]

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[Potato]

I just rewatched this the other day, only it was the one synchronized with Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
I always wanted to do that.

[mfgbypooter]

I always wanted to do that.I have this on DVD but here is a brief explaination of how it can be done.

1. Buy or rent the movie 'The Wizard of Oz.'
2. Buy or rent the CD of Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon.'
3. Put the CD in the player and press pause at the beginning of track 1.
4. Put the movie in your VCR and begin to play.
5. Turn off the sound on your television. Turn up the volume on your CD player.
6. When the MGM lion roars for the third time, unpause the CD.
7. If the credit 'Produced by Mervyl Leroy' appears onscreen at the transition between 'Speak to Me' and 'Breathe,' then you are correctly synched.
8. Look for the following synchronicities:
9. The tornado scene begins just as 'The Great Gig in the Sky' starts playing. The song lasts for the entire duration of the storm.
10. The female singer begins moaning, her voice rising and falling in time with the mood of the tornado scene. When 'Great Gig' ends, the first side of the album also ends.
11. 'Money' begins as Dorothy opens the door and sees Oz. The black and white part of the film ends at this point and begins in color.
12. The lyics 'Don't give me that do-goody-good bullsh*t' are heard as Glinda the good witch floats down in her bubble.
13. The dancing ballerinas seem to keep time with the rhythm in 'Us and Them.'
14. 'Brain Damage' becomes the backdrop for the scarecrow scene where he's singing 'If I Only Had a Brain.'
15. The album ends with a heartbeat, as Dorothy presses her ear to the Tin Man's chest to listen for a heart.

[RACKnRAIL]

RacknRail, do you know where I could this movie from?

I have no idea where you could.

[TheBlackSnow]

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[TheBlackSnow]

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[RACKnRAIL]

well, then where did you watch that movie?


I haven't seen this, but it would appear to be the oldest movie.

I hate to quote myself, but I said, I had not seen it...only read about it.

[TheBlackSnow]

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[moneoa]

Reefer Madness of early paraniod documentary fame....1933 I think

[mfgbypooter]

lol @ Reefer Madness..The Smoke from Hell.
Haven't seen that one in a while.

[SanDiegoKid]

That crazy guy on the piano is the best.

[the great one]

It's A Wonderful Life.That is the oldest movie I've seen.

[rebirth]

surprised no one has said Snow White (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029583/)

[rebirth]

steamboat willie 1928...

[Mels_Smileys45]

well, then where did you watch that movie?

Oops, quoted the wrong person. should have quoted tater

I have 'Dark Side of the Rainbow'(OZ). Its a trip to watch. If some want it PM me and we can work something out by tomorrow

[Mels_Smileys45]

Shit, here is a list of alot of movies set to Pink Floyd and others, Dark City would be great! http://darksideoftherainbow.cjb.net/

[mfgbypooter]

Yeah, besides the Dark Side of the Rainbow I have 2001: A Pink Floyd Odyssey. I'd like to have Alice In Wonderland/The Wall. Maybe one of these days...