The first film in the world was Scenes from the Gardens of Londonderry.

It was directed by Louis Le Prince and starred Adolph Lee Prince, Sarah Wheatley, Joseph Wheatley, and Harriet Hartley in a black-and-white silent documentary. The film was made in 1888 and is certified by IMDb as the first film in human history. The film documents a group of people doing some antics in a garden.

In October 1888, Prince made the world's first moving image on celluloid film and a single-lens camera, the Roundhay Garden Scene, a less than three-second image of four people doing antics in a garden. The film was shown at Prince's in-laws' factory and estate in Leeds, but there were no public screenings.

The film makes 'death' a debatable subject - ten days after the film was made, one of the characters, Sarah Wheatley, died and Prince himself mysteriously disappeared in September 1890 on a train journey from Dijon to Paris, his body and luggage nowhere to be found.

The mysterious disappearance of Prince himself on a train journey from Dijon to Paris in September 1890, his body and luggage nowhere to be found, has become a mystery in cinema history.

The film conveys a more visceral emotion, and if the text achieves a kind of historical origin, it is filled with a record of sober reality. Black and white films become a way of expressing people's emotions.

Photographic technology arose in the 19th century, while cinema, as a development based on the creation of photography, arose in France in the late 19th century, more than 100 years ago. Photography and films, therefore, go hand in hand, with technological changes in the former inevitably affecting the latter, a foundation that runs through the development of the cinema camera.

At the time when photography was first developed, negatives were first used in metal and later in glass, and only one picture at a time could be taken, making it impossible to capture continuous motion images.

1888 saw the invention of Kodak Eastman's gelatin-based film, which made it possible to capture continuous motion images, and the film was then invented and became a great art form. The standard frame rate for contemporary film is 24 frames per second, which means that 24 pictures are shown every second.

But the film did not start out at 24 frames per second, and because of the technical limitations of early cameras and photographic film, the first films were made at 12 frames per second and therefore looked very jerky.

But this gradually became a hallmark of early cinema and film effects, such as the famous Chaplin films, and the lag actually became part of the comic effect.

Later, as camera technology developed, the film was exposed more quickly, and motorized reels replaced manual reels, the speed at which films could be shot and played increased, eventually reaching a lower limit at which the human eye could view motion pictures without feeling jerky: 24 frames per second, which became the standard for film playback and was fixed.

To this day, a large proportion of the world's cinema equipment still operates to this standard.

There were various sizes of film negatives for photographs, which similarly influenced the size of film negatives for cameras. Later, 35mm film became a standard and most cinema cameras were based on this, i.e. 35mm cinema cameras.

A standard 35mm film camera cassette contains 122 meters or 305 meters of film and can take up to about 10 minutes.

These film cameras were very heavy and could only be used on a stand for filming. In order to make the camera lighter and smaller, film sizes of 16mm and 8mm were developed, the cinema camera became smaller and handheld photography began to be introduced into cinematography.

Film cameras are still active in the industry, with Arri and Panavision's film cameras holding a large market share. For example, The Avengers still shoots extensively with film cameras, and some top directors, such as Christopher Nolan, are still firm fans of film cameras and shoot their movies exclusively on film.