Byron H @ Greymouth High School

First Movie Actor First movie actor was Florence Lawrence She was born on January 2 nd , 1886 She died on the December 28 th , 1938 by suicide She was referred to as “The first Movie Star”  She was the first publicly named actor She appeared in more than 300 films in her career She was born in Hamilton, Canada She committed suicide because of a rough life before and after her acting career https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Lawrence Florence Lawrence was the first publicly named movie actor in the world. She was born on January the 2 nd , 1886 in Hamilton, Canada where she lived until she moved Hollywood to follow her acting career and see where it will take her in life. She worked on Broadway for the first part of her career and then when the opportunity came up to work in front of a camera she didn’t let it pass. She appeared in more than 300 movies in her whole life she quickly got a huge fan base. After a few years passed her career started to die down,...

In English we had to find a research topic, the category that we had was First In The World. We went from there and started thinking. At the start we got into groups and wrought down some things that we wanted to find out. Then from there we took one and started researching and my topic was "What was the first movie director and actor?" And this is the reason why I chose it. Who was the first movie star and the first movie director? I chose this topic because I've always been interested in movies and how they started.  I’ve always found it interesting by how it has evolved over a small amount of time, how they have gone from black and white and with no sound to colour, sound and special effects that you swear looks real and not fake. So I am going to research who had the honour to be the first movie star and the first person to direct a movie. After that we had to find the difference between a good and trustworthy website to a website that will give you false in...