the oldest movie you have seen

**TheBlackSnow** · January 12th, 2005, 09:43 PM

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SanDiegoKid · January 12th, 2005, 09:55 PM

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** · January 12th, 2005, 09:56 PM

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** · January 12th, 2005, 10:02 PM

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

**Lord_of_the_Dense** · January 12th, 2005, 10:08 PM

Gone With The Wind (1939)

**mfgbypooter** · January 12th, 2005, 10:26 PM

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

**infringer** · January 13th, 2005, 01:04 AM

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** · January 13th, 2005, 01:40 AM

some Charlie Chaplin's movies

**Travis982** · January 13th, 2005, 03:33 AM

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** · January 13th, 2005, 06:40 AM

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** · January 13th, 2005, 07:49 AM

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** · January 13th, 2005, 07:58 AM

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**Potato** · January 13th, 2005, 08:28 AM

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

**mfgbypooter** · January 13th, 2005, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by Potato

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** · January 13th, 2005, 08:53 AM

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.