By Mark Prigg PUBLISHED: 17:05 EST, 28 February 2014 | UPDATED: 17:16 EST, 28 February 2014 It may not quite have the glamour or glitz of the latest Hollywood blockbuster, but this blurry footage of an engineer standing in front of a camera is likely to be the first film ever shot in America. Revealed by GE and called 'Monkeyshines', it was created by engineers William Heise and William K. L. Dickson as they worked on the first device for viewing moving pictures. They made the movie for Edison Labs in 1889 or 1890 while working with Thomas Edison to develop and test the Kinetoscope, an early motion picture viewing device considered to be the precursor to movie projectors.
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Film shows engineer in front of camera
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Made at Edison Labs in 1889 or 1890
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Team developed the Kinetoscope, an early motion picture viewing device
The @placeholder was not a movie projector but introduced the basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video, by creating the illusion of movement by conveying a strip of perforated film bearing sequential images over a light source with a high-speed shutter.