The film is titled "Roundhay Garden Scene" and was released in 1888.

From IMDB: 

The earliest celluloid film was shot by Louise Le Prince using the Le Prince single-lens camera made in 1888. It was taken in the garden of the Whitley family house in Oakwood Grange Road, Roundhay, a suburb of Leeds, Yorkshire, Great Britain, possibly on October 14, 1888. It shows Adolphe Le Prince (Le Prince's son), Mrs. Sarah Whitley, (Le Prince's mother-in-law), Joseph Whitley and Miss Harriet Hartley. The 'actors' are shown walking around in circles, laughing to themselves and keeping within the area framed by the camera. It lasts for less than 2 seconds and includes 4 frames.

http://www.nmpft.org.uk/insight/info/roundhay.mov

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and the second film ever made:

Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888)

From IMDB:
Filmed on paper filmstrips, this is Louis Aime Augustin Le Prince's second known film, produced in October 1888. Only photographic copies of it survive today. The Leeds Bridge was filmed because it provided action. 

http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/llp/picture.gif

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As for the first UNITED STATES film, Dickson Greeting is credited as the first US film. Directed, produced by and starring William Kennedy Laurie Dickson - it simply displays a 3 second clip of him waving. It was made in 1891 in collaboration with Thomas Edison using his kinetoscope. The film would be played at National Federation of Women's Clubs.

Dickson Greeting (1891) 
http://memory.loc.gov/mbrs/edmp/4014a.mpg 

This post has been edited by TheDVDGuy07 on Jun 9 2005, 09:19 AM 
 




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