The First Ever Made

When was the first ever movie made?

"The Story of the Kelly Gang" is widely considered as the world's first feature length film. It was a 70 minute length movie released in 1906. The story of the movie portrays the life of the legendary Australian bushranger, Ned Kelly (1855-1880). Charles Tait wrote and directed it. It is said that the film's actual reel length is 1219.2 meters. The Story of the Kelly Gang was released on 26th December 1906 in Australia at the Melbourne Town Hall. The movie starred Elizabeth Tait, Godfrey Cass, Nicholas Brierley, and John Tait.

The very first movies, when the technology was new, were very simply clips of everyday actions. For example, the Lumiere brothers filmed a train arriving and people getting off it. Thomas Edison filmed a man and woman kissing.Two of the earliest films that attempted to tell a narrative story both appeared in 1902: THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (filmed in New Jersey, not far from my home town of Dover!) and George Melies's fantasy A TRIP TO THE MOON. Both of these were very short silent films.