The movie industry has seen top movies like James Cameron’s Avatar and Marvel’s Avengers make billions of dollars at the Box Office. It has been estimated that there are approximately 500,000 movies (or, narrative fiction feature-length, theatrical-cinema films) in existence presently. Also, the video hosting software, YouTube, has over 800 million videos on its platform. These videos would up to 9.36 billion minutes or 17,810 years to view.

Movies, and videos in general, make up a huge part of our lives but how did it start? In this video, we’ll take a look at some of the oldest videos ever recorded and glance at the lives of people who lived more than 100 years ago.