Who started the first film production company?
The first FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY in Britain was established by Robert Paul, who issued his first catalogue of commercially made films for general distribution towards the end of 1896. This lists over 40 different films for general distribution towards the end of 1896. This lists over 40 different films, though it omits Rough Seas at Dover, usually raid to have been his first commercial production, and which Paul claimed had been made for him by Bert Acres as early as February 1895. The largest single category was of general interest actualities, totaling 23 films, including two early examples of cinema-verite one of a child falling from a steam-launch and being rescued by a swimmer, and the other of a bookmaker’s runner being arrested.
The only two acted films were comedies—one titled 2 a.m., and representing an erring husband (M. Paul Cierget) returning home at that hour to meet the displeasure of his wife (Mme Selwicke); the other called The Soldier’s Courtship with Fred Storey in the name-part.
What was the title of the film shown on a screen to the public?
LA SORTIE was the title of the first film shown on a screen to the public.
