Wintergartenprogramm

This film is considered one of the acceptations to the claim, that the Lumière Brothers may have been beaten to the punch, on their way to the new box office. Max Skladanowsky and his brother Emil, using their Bioscope projector (which did go up onto a screen), was shown to a paying audience on November 1st, 1895. That timeline beats the Lumière's by almost two months. This film is a collection of other short films, running about 25 seconds each, that were eventually edited together into a four and a half minute film, that received theatrical distribution all over the world, in later years.

You should definitely watch Wintergartenprogramm (1895), by itself, instead of trying to hunt down all the individual movies by themselves. They are all here in a presentation that actually fits a better description of what a motion picture really is. It also was the intended desire by Skladanowsky to collect them together anyway. I would also try and find a version that has music or play your own music. I found this film on YouTube and chose to watch a black and white version. They also have a version that is tinted orange. Of course, I am going to give this film a 10. What else would you give one of the first movies ever made?

9.7 (A+ MyGrade) = 10 IMDB.