rosco1977 This should be in the film hall of fame for the technical brilliance it bought to the genre. Amazing watch from start to end.

Horst in Translation ([email protected]) Blink and it's gone. "Roundhay Garden Scene" is a 2-second (yep!) film from 1888, so it's over 125 years old. Impressive. It is black-and-white, silent and was made by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince. Now he may not possess the popularity or fame of Georges Méliès or the most prominent other very early filmmakers, but you have to admit that he explored the entirely medium of movies way before they did. In these 2 seconds, you see a handful people and it looks like they are not exactly poor judging from the clothes they wear, I read that the people in here are actually relatives of the director, all of them or almost all of them. It's probably interesting for people who live in that area to visit the place where this was made and take a look at what it looks like today. I cannot really recommend it to general audiences, for this the contents are just too insignificant, but it's certainly worth a watch for film history buffs like myself.

BA_Harrison It's lasts barely longer than it takes to say the title, but this short black and white film—shot by Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince in 1888 and reputedly the first film ever made—is a highly influential work, one that, even today, resonates in the work of several contemporary film-makers.Hollywood powerhouses Michael Bay and Tony Scott regularly employ Le Prince's 'no shot longer than two seconds' technique in their action sequences, whilst this year's The Artist successfully resurrected Roundhay's silent black and white aesthetic and bagged a clutch of Oscars as a result.Today's movie fans sure owe a lot to Monsieur Le Prince and his tea-party guests.

ilovekittiesdotcom I gave this a rating of ten because you have to appreciate history don't you?Sure they made the whole thing in one day, but the people back then would probably never know how big just filming that little piece would be to future generations of movie making.Someone had finally figured out how to make the picture move like a flip book.It was sad that some of the actors died shortly after this was filmed, but it just makes it spookier so more people would watch. 10/10 Cool movie, even though not a lot of people are used to it.