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Card_Zero t1_jedmgkl wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in TIL that the oldest film on IMDb is "Passage de Vénus", a six second series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on December 9th, 1874. by PresLyndonBJohnson36

That's a patent by John Barnes Linnett, it's not clear whether the idea was to animate photographs or just drawings. I did find Experimental photographic sequence viewers (1850s–1860s) mentioned on the Zoetrope page, though.

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[deleted] t1_jeed2v6 wrote

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Card_Zero t1_jeedybd wrote

Fair enough! If we can include animations in any format, IMDB should maybe include that vase with the jumping goats from (if I remember rightly) about 3000 BC. Or if not that somewhat dubious example, there are definitely Chinese magic lantern type devices (走馬燈) from around 1000 AD that did a bit of animation.

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