Follow-up question: was it controversial at the time?

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    If your criteria allows for short films and ones from other languages, the five minute film La Passion Du Christ fits. It’s from the 1800’s, which was so long ago people were probably going to drive-in theaters on their horses to see it.

    • Dr. Bob@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      It would have to - that was the length of a film reel. I think Birth of a Nation was the first non-serial multi reel film to be shown in 1915.

      • livus@kbin.social
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        9 months ago

        Definitely not, though that’s often cited in old textbooks.

        The Story of the Kelly Gang 1906 was over an hour long, and screened as one film in both Australia and Britain. Bunch of others from various countries before 1915 as well.

    • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netOP
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      9 months ago

      It does. Any length, any language is fine.

      Thanks for the suggestion! Is it the Lumiere one you’re referring to?