The oldest surviving film is the two-second, 52-frame silent movie Roundhay Garden Scene, filmed by French inventor Louis Le Prince in Leeds, England, on October 14, 1888. This brief clip of people walking in a garden predates the work of other film pioneers and holds the Guinness World Record as the earliest surviving motion picture. | History In Pictures

137 years of film history. Think how much has changed from the very first film (now colourised) to our modern AI generated films. Here at Stourbridge Glass Museum, we are guardians of history made eternal through glass. This finds a profound connection in the story of the Roundhay Garden Scene, filmed on 14 October 1888. Created by the inventor Louis Le Prince in Leeds, this brief, silent sequence of figures in a garden is recognised as the world's oldest surviving motion picture. The very survi