The first fiction film?
Thomas Edison is credited with a lot of things he didn’t do, or did at the same time as others, including inventing the movies. But one thing he DID do was produce arguably the first fiction film, The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, a couple of months before the Lumiere Brothers premiered their movies in Paris in 1895. It’s also probably the first film to include editing, violence, special effects, period costumes and the use of trained actors.