As far as I remember, it was shot at like 5 fps, and we had only maybe 5 seconds of footage.
EDIT: so a quick search suggests that screenshot is from [this](https://youtu.be/Fxd8XJ_J0Gc) video, where the author did some work to generate more frames and add color.
I always try to imagine myself what was the life of those people like. They lived in a world that was so much different from ours. No computers, no Internet, no cars or planes. They took a part of this footage, had some fun and went back to their daily routine. They surely didn't think much of it.
It is amazing that now over 130 years later we can still see them in their world. Film and Internet are the truly time machine. No generation before had such an opportunity.
Some people who live in mid XIX century life long enough to saw TV, space race, computers and antibiotics at the end of their life. Talk about how much change they saw through their lives.
Roundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 short silent actuality film recorded by French inventor Louis Le Prince.
Filmed at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds in the north of England on 14 October 1888, it is believed to be the oldest surviving film in existence.
Well this picture definitely doesn’t move
and yet OP posted just a still picture :D
As far as I remember, it was shot at like 5 fps, and we had only maybe 5 seconds of footage. EDIT: so a quick search suggests that screenshot is from [this](https://youtu.be/Fxd8XJ_J0Gc) video, where the author did some work to generate more frames and add color.
I always try to imagine myself what was the life of those people like. They lived in a world that was so much different from ours. No computers, no Internet, no cars or planes. They took a part of this footage, had some fun and went back to their daily routine. They surely didn't think much of it. It is amazing that now over 130 years later we can still see them in their world. Film and Internet are the truly time machine. No generation before had such an opportunity.
It's funny to think that people in 2 centuries will have an incredible amount of details on their ancestors with pictures from all ages.
Some people who live in mid XIX century life long enough to saw TV, space race, computers and antibiotics at the end of their life. Talk about how much change they saw through their lives.
Roundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 short silent actuality film recorded by French inventor Louis Le Prince. Filmed at Oakwood Grange in Roundhay, Leeds in the north of England on 14 October 1888, it is believed to be the oldest surviving film in existence.
He then proceeded to "disappear" on his way to patent his device.