According to Australia.gov.au, The Australian film industry produced what was probably the world's first full length feature film, in 1906. The film was by the Tait brothers and titles The Story of the Kelly Gang. Apparently it was a success in both Australian and british theaters, and also the beginning of a genre of 'bushranger stories'.
Only fragments of the film are left, so here's a little bit of it I found on youtube:
Another important figure in the beginning of film is Georges Melies.
His film 'A trip to the moon' (in french it's called Le Voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 black and white silent science fiction film. In fact, it's the screen's first ever science fiction film, loosely based on two popular novels of the time: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne, and The First Men in the Moon by H.G. Wells:
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