The oldest known motion picture is Roundhay Garden Scenefrom 1888. But the first motion picture with a real plot was A Trip to the Moon from 1902 and was a Science Fiction film. So the first movie genre ever was Science Fiction. Unbelievable, isn't it?
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1888 - experimental film "Roundhay Garden Scene".
The first motion picture was invented by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878. He used a series of photographs of a horse in motion to create the illusion of movement when viewed in quick succession.
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A motion picture is a noun. The plural would be motion pictures.
Peter Pan the motion picture event.
The Motion Picture Association of America.
Thomas Alva Edison invented motion picture in the late 1890s. His interest in motion picture started at around 1888, and the first motion picture shown to an audience was in New York City on April 23, 1896. A fun fact is that one of the first motion pictures he took (and the first one copyrighted) was of one of his employees pretending to sneeze!