on April 6th, 2008 by firefly
The first film was created by Louis Le Prince in 1888. It was a two second film of people walking around in a garden and was called ‘Roundhay Garden Scene’. The first silent films were short, usually only a few minutes in length. 1929, when the means of recording sound and movement at the same time was discovered, silent films became obsolete, with the exception of Charlie Chaplin whose character of the Tramp was compatible with silent medium. When the silent era ended he refused to go along with sound; instead he maintained the melodramatic Tramp as his mainstay in ‘City Lights’ (1931) and ‘Modern Times’ (1936).
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