What is the oldest movie you've ever seen?

[Algonquin Assassin]

Part of my uni studies this semester is film studies and so far we've watched some early, classics to analyse. I'm just curious what's the oldest one(s) you've ever watched?

 

As of yesterday A Trip To The Moon is the oldest movie I've ever seen being 115 years old.

[The Time Ranger]

A movie called Metropolis from 1927 about a future city which is a utopia, but has a dark secret.

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0017136/

It's been a while since I've seen it but it was a good watch.

[darthYENIK]

Part of my uni studies this semester is film studies and so far we've watched some early, classics to analyse. I'm just curious what's the oldest one(s) you've ever watched?

 

As of yesterday A Trip To The Moon is the oldest movie I've ever seen being 115 years old.

A Trip to the moon for me as well. At least of films that I would call a "movie". Go on YouTube, search for Georges Méliès, and most if not all of his surviving films should be on there. I've never really dipped into that, which is why A Trip to the Moon is my oldest movies I've watched. Many of his films are under 5 minutes, and from the 1890s. He was truly the father of "movies". Special effects, fantastic stories. Spielberg of the turn of the century.

[~Tiger~]

When I was a kid (in the 1960's & 70's) there were a lot of re-runs of the old Silent Movies. My particular favourites featured Buster Keaton, and were all short films, all pre-1923 and mostly characterised by slapstick humour and Keatons astonishing stunts:

 

The most famous is at 1:25 in this video

 

 

 

And of course Harold Lloyd's famous Clock Scene (1923) filmed on a high rise building with no safety equipment whatsoever:

 

 

Edited August 4, 2017 by ~Tiger~

[rtie]

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, 1920

 

Watched it when I did art at college. It was okay, but there were no tits or explosions

[DarkSavageDeathlyCloud]

Generic answer probably, but i think that is gonna be Dr. No(1962).

[Femme Fatale]

The Man Who Laughs, courtesy of Youtube. I read that the Joker was inspired by the movie's protagonist, so I thought, why not?

[Kiffster]

Probably something ancient from disney like Snow White

[Matrelith]

I wrote a paper in high school about T.E Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia. For research I read the book written by Lawrence himself, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (a tough read sitting around 700 pages) and I also watched the movie based on his adventures. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) would be the oldest movie I've ever seen. It's a pretty long movie, three and a half hours, and it even has a 10 minute interlude in it on the DVD. It's suprisingly faithful to the actual adventures though. Nearly every major adventure of Lawrence is featured in the film.

 

 

Edited August 5, 2017 by Matrelith

[The Dedito Gae]

Saw King Kong (1933) in it's entirety, easily the oldest one.

[GTA-Biker]

I think Nosferatu is the oldest movie I've seen

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosferatu

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0013442/

Edited August 5, 2017 by GTA-Biker

[Mister Pink]

Probably German film Metropolis from 1927. Pretty amazing special effects for back then and even now. It is such an influential film. Video of Radio Ga Ga by Queen comes to mind. That music video was probably my first exposure to Metropolis. Also fellow German's Kraftwerk made a track called Metropolis which is an obvious reference to the film.

 

 

 

There's also Charlie Chaplin's The Kid which is even earlier.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=502fffOxEh4

Edited August 6, 2017 by Mister Pink

[Richard Power Colt]

I think I saw the original King Kong and some Charlie Chaplin stuff when I was a kid. I also saw Citizen Kane at least partially one time when it was on TV. And yeah I've seen bits of Metropolis as well. Generally I haven't really had much interest in watching movies from the black and white era. I think the oldest stuff I've really gone out of my way to fully watch in the recent years would be from the 60's and 70's.

[Furry_Monkey]

And of course Harold Lloyd's famous Clock Scene (1923) filmed on a high rise building with no safety equipment whatsoever

 

Sorry to spoil your childhood memories, but that's not true. They constructed the "side of the building" set and placed it on a high rooftop so it appeared really high up. When they wanted to go higher they just moved to a higher rooftop.

 

It turns out that camera trickery in those days was a LOT better than you'd expect!

 

 

 

Edited August 8, 2017 by Furry_Monkey

[~Tiger~]

Sorry to spoil your childhood memories, but that's not true

 

You know, I knew someone would burst my bubble of nostalgia.

 

Damned internet.

[Furry_Monkey]

 

Sorry to spoil your childhood memories, but that's not true

 

You know, I knew someone would burst my bubble of nostalgia.

 

Damned internet.

 

 

Hey, it's Father Christmas for grown-ups. Enjoy the fact that you believed the magic once!

[Sunrise Driver]

City Lights (1931)

Scarface (1932)

Triumph des Willens (1935)

[A8ul99]

The original "War of the Worlds" (1953).

[feckyerlife]

scarface and this classic

 

 

[Wingate167]

Metropolis for me

[t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m]

Nosferatu (1922), which I thought held up really well. It had a few scenes that made the hairs on my neck stand up. I would love to be able to see the original audience reactions to this, as it must have been very frightening to some.

 

I've watched King Kong (1933) a few times. One of my faves.

 

If you want to get technical, I've watched some old reels from the late-1800s and very-early-1900s. Mostly old city and urban footage because I like to get a glimpse into daily life back then, but a few shorts like Sick Kitten (1903) or Execution of Queen Mary (1895) as well.

[Tacymist]

This goofy video from 1888.

 

 

 

I found it a few years ago when I was trying to see what the oldest video ever was, and this was what came up. The people in it always make me smile, they seemed so clueless as to what they should be doing while the camera was rolling. lol

[GTA-Biker]

This goofy video from 1888.

 

 

 

I found it a few years ago when I was trying to see what the oldest video ever was, and this was what came up. The people in it always make me smile, they seemed so clueless as to what they should be doing while the camera was rolling. lol

Cool video.I found another very old one:

 

[darthYENIK]

Is that the one where the audience jumped out of their seats and ran for the door because they thought the train was going to crash into them?

[t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m]

I keep expecting to see someone get run down by a horse and buggy. This was just a week before the San Francisco earthquake, so it's sort of weird to think a lot of these people were dead or displaced immediately after.

 

[GTA-Biker]

Is that the one where the audience jumped out of their seats and ran for the door because they thought the train was going to crash into them?

I don't know,maybe.I also heard a similar story about some gunslinger who went to the movie theater back in the late 19th/early 20th century,and got so pissed off at the movie's bad guy that he pulled out his gun and shot the screen.I have no idea did it really happened or just an urban legend,but it was a cool story.

Edited August 17, 2017 by GTA-Biker

[Mukkus]

Saw King Kong (1933) in it's entirety, easily the oldest one.

This was my first thought, but Frankenstein was a couple years earlier.

Edited August 22, 2017 by Mukkus

[LazlowsucksiloveslutS]

The original Scarface, 1930s something.

[sreyazsec]

Witchfinder General (1968).

It's the oldest film I've seen that I can remember.

 

(The first 'old' movie I ever watched was Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, 1937. Still a personal favourite of mine).

[Tokasmoka]

Debbie does the Prussian Empire

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ha, I'm up after the band.