Though it barely constitutes as a film, 'The Passage to Venus' is likely the earliest film in cinema history. No, not the earliest film of any particular genre or method, but just the first FILM in general. As for what it contains, there's not much to it. You might as well read the IMDb description and that is pretty much it. It's only about six seconds long, the quality of even the finest print of this film is low and hard to see, which is natural considering the film's extraordinary age. However, how impossibly important this film really is makes up for the less than compelling actual contents of the film, as it really enhances the awe inspiring quality this film would otherwise never inspire.
21 Reviews
Was this the first movie ever?
ericstevenson16 January 2019
This is the oldest thing listed on the entire IMDb. I'm glad to have discovered this neat trick where you can literally look at any submission on the entire website. You just type in a keyword and then get rid of the check in the box. This website has literally 5.3 million entries! It's quite nice to get to see the first one. I believe "Roundhay Garden Scene" was technically the first movie ever made.
This is actually a series of photographs, so it probably doesn't count as a movie. It's only 5 seconds long, but it's great to see history in motion! Of course, it's very low quality. I imagine this would be in the public domain so it shouldn't be hard to find. Weird when I make a review longer than the actual entry! I'm sure you have time to see this. ***
This is actually a series of photographs, so it probably doesn't count as a movie. It's only 5 seconds long, but it's great to see history in motion! Of course, it's very low quality. I imagine this would be in the public domain so it shouldn't be hard to find. Weird when I make a review longer than the actual entry! I'm sure you have time to see this. ***
The Birth of the Visual Venus
benrossg13 November 2020
OR IS IT?
It is true that this is the very first sequential photographic series put to motion ever produced, there is an elephant in the room that needs to be addressed. The tragedy is that this is not actually the heavenly body of Venus passing before the great burning day ball in the sky. It is in fact, the world's first screen test, as these are only models, placeholders made to test the plates which would be used for the real deal. Regrettably, the actual footage of the Venusian transit may be lost forever. According to Wikipedia, "A 2005 study of the surviving material concluded that all the extant plates made with the photographic revolver are practice plates shot with a model and that none of the many plates successfully exposed during the eclipse seem to have survived."
Yet we must interpret it as it is: A film. Indeed, it is fitting that man's first foray into something so invariably groundbreaking in influence, cultural impact and importance to art as film is indeed, baby steps, waddling up towards the stars. Or at least, the pretend ones spinning above the nascent medium's crib in its nursery. If we play along with this vision, we cannot help but be in awe of man's great scope for this technology's use, to chart astrological and scientific phenomena, to revolutionize the preservation of once in a lifetime events, and indeed attain near-apotheosis in achieving the ability to preserve, simulate and replay life itself as long as the powers and mediums employed would hold. It is staggering in and of itself that this alone survived into the age where it could be immortalized nearly forever, to inspire every generation with proof that even in simulacra, man has always been driven to achievement by gazing upon the wonders within the stars.
It is true that this is the very first sequential photographic series put to motion ever produced, there is an elephant in the room that needs to be addressed. The tragedy is that this is not actually the heavenly body of Venus passing before the great burning day ball in the sky. It is in fact, the world's first screen test, as these are only models, placeholders made to test the plates which would be used for the real deal. Regrettably, the actual footage of the Venusian transit may be lost forever. According to Wikipedia, "A 2005 study of the surviving material concluded that all the extant plates made with the photographic revolver are practice plates shot with a model and that none of the many plates successfully exposed during the eclipse seem to have survived."
Yet we must interpret it as it is: A film. Indeed, it is fitting that man's first foray into something so invariably groundbreaking in influence, cultural impact and importance to art as film is indeed, baby steps, waddling up towards the stars. Or at least, the pretend ones spinning above the nascent medium's crib in its nursery. If we play along with this vision, we cannot help but be in awe of man's great scope for this technology's use, to chart astrological and scientific phenomena, to revolutionize the preservation of once in a lifetime events, and indeed attain near-apotheosis in achieving the ability to preserve, simulate and replay life itself as long as the powers and mediums employed would hold. It is staggering in and of itself that this alone survived into the age where it could be immortalized nearly forever, to inspire every generation with proof that even in simulacra, man has always been driven to achievement by gazing upon the wonders within the stars.
The Birth of Cinematography
Cineanalyst11 November 2014
On 8 December 1874, French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen recorded a series of images with his photographic revolver of the transit of Venus between the Earth and the Sun. Plans to observe the astronomical event had been in the making for some time, and records made by Janssen's method required the invention of a new camera. Since then, historians have considered this a turning point in pre-cinema history and the history of photography or as the beginning of the invention of motion pictures. One film historian, for example, called Janssen "the originator of modern cinematography" (Friedrich von Zglinicki, quoted by Hermann Hecht in "Pre-Cinema History"); while Virgilio Tosi has said of Janssen's revolver photographique, that it was "a genuine scientific cine camera in embryo". Generally, the revolver photographique figures as a starting point for Chronophotography and is cited as especially of influence on the work of fellow French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey (see "Falling Cat" (1894)).
Janssen presented his plans to photograph the transit of Venus with his revolver and had the first version of the camera built by clockmaker Eugène Deschiens in 1873. The camera was called a "revolver" because of its similarities to the firearms, such as those introduced by Samuel Colt. Others have said that "revolver" is a misnomer or that the camera is more similar to a machine gun. Before Janssen, others had tried to record sequential photographs; reportedly, Englishmen, one named Thompson and the other Thomas Skaife, invented cameras that made several images. Others photographed staged and slightly altered poses in lieu of being able to take instantaneous sequential pictures. Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (also known by the pseudonym Nadar) did this for a revolving self-portrait circa 1864. Similarly, in 1870, Henry Heyl photographed a couple in a series of waltz poses, and he synthesized their motion via the projection of his Phasmatrope.
Many of these early cameras, which can be viewed at the George Eastman House website, very much resemble guns, as does Marey's later photographic rifle. It seems an appropriate combination of two technologies that emerged earlier in the 19th Century and which allowed for the development from still photography to that of instantaneous and serial images. Despite their mechanical similarities of rotation, however, Janssen's cameras are only cylinders. The second version made in 1874 by the father and son instrument makers Redier, featured intermittent movement of the Daguerreotype metal plate by means of Maltese-cross gears. This cylindrical camera, which could be operated either manually or automatically, was attached to a horizontal telescope that was pointed at a small heliostat, to record 48 images in 72 seconds of the "Passage de Vénus".
Janssen's team of eight people traveled to the Kompirayama hill in Nagasaki, Japan for the event, while two other members of his party went to Kobe, Japan. The next day, Janssen reported that his observations were a success, despite the caveat that it was "cloudy at intervals". Unfortunately, as the sources mentioned at the bottom have discovered, this record is no longer known to exist. The plates from several English parties who used cameras based on Janssen's for the transit don't seem to have faired too well, either, over the years—except for at least one that has been said to still be known to exist. (By the way, the English cameras were by John Henry Dallmeyer, who is also notable for having provided the lenses that helped to make possible Eadweard Muybridge's "automatic electro-photography" beginning in 1878 (see "Sallie Gardner at a Gallop" (1880))). The animation of images available on the web, including at YouTube, and in Tosi's educational film mentioned at the bottom are of a simulation conducted by Janssen earlier in 1874. Janssen presented artificial passages to the Académie des Sciences on 6 July 1874.
In addition to arguably being the first instance of cinematography, these images are also early examples of time-lapse photography and of scientific filmmaking. (By the way, part of Tosi's thesis is that cinema was invented out of the research needs of science by the likes of Janssen, Muybridge, Marey and others and not as spectacle, i.e. by the likes of Thomas Edison, W.K.L. Dickson and the Lumière brothers).
Chronophotography, or cinematography, weren't of main interest to Janssen, though, but, rather, a means to aid his scientific research, as was also the case for Marey. Of the rest of his life, Janssen was an accomplished astronomer, including discovering the gas helium. Nevertheless, he continued to take part in the invention of motion pictures in another way, by appearing in the work of Marey and the Lumière brothers. These Frenchman, of course, would be among the first to invent celluloid film cameras and projectors. On 1 January 1884, Janssen posed wearing a turban and smoking a cigarette for close-up chronophotographs on a disc made by Marey (see the book "Picturing Time" by Marta Braun). On 11 June 1895, he was among the French photographic society filmed disembarking from a boat in "Débarquement du congrès des photographes à Lyon", which the Lumière brothers projected the next day at a private Cinématographe screening for them. Janssen also appeared in the Lumière film "Discussion de Monsieur Janssen et de Monsieur Lagrange", for which during the projection of it, he and Lagrange hid behind the screen and reenacted the dialogue of that discussion (source: Stephen Herbert, Who's Who of Victorian Cinema website). Additionally, Janssen met Edison in 1889 while the "Wizard of Menlo Park" was in Paris and introduced him to the Académie des Sciences and to Marey (source: Braun). Although most people today may not know much about the true invention of the movies, Marey and the Lumière brothers knew whose shoulders they were standing on.
Main sources: the essay "Jules Janssen's 'Revolver Photographique' and its British Derivative, 'The Janssen Slide'" by Françoise Launay and Peter D. Hingley and the book "Cinema Before Cinema: the Origins of Scientific Cinematography" and film "The Origins of Scientific Cinematography: the Pioneers" (1990) both by Virgilio Tosi.
Janssen presented his plans to photograph the transit of Venus with his revolver and had the first version of the camera built by clockmaker Eugène Deschiens in 1873. The camera was called a "revolver" because of its similarities to the firearms, such as those introduced by Samuel Colt. Others have said that "revolver" is a misnomer or that the camera is more similar to a machine gun. Before Janssen, others had tried to record sequential photographs; reportedly, Englishmen, one named Thompson and the other Thomas Skaife, invented cameras that made several images. Others photographed staged and slightly altered poses in lieu of being able to take instantaneous sequential pictures. Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (also known by the pseudonym Nadar) did this for a revolving self-portrait circa 1864. Similarly, in 1870, Henry Heyl photographed a couple in a series of waltz poses, and he synthesized their motion via the projection of his Phasmatrope.
Many of these early cameras, which can be viewed at the George Eastman House website, very much resemble guns, as does Marey's later photographic rifle. It seems an appropriate combination of two technologies that emerged earlier in the 19th Century and which allowed for the development from still photography to that of instantaneous and serial images. Despite their mechanical similarities of rotation, however, Janssen's cameras are only cylinders. The second version made in 1874 by the father and son instrument makers Redier, featured intermittent movement of the Daguerreotype metal plate by means of Maltese-cross gears. This cylindrical camera, which could be operated either manually or automatically, was attached to a horizontal telescope that was pointed at a small heliostat, to record 48 images in 72 seconds of the "Passage de Vénus".
Janssen's team of eight people traveled to the Kompirayama hill in Nagasaki, Japan for the event, while two other members of his party went to Kobe, Japan. The next day, Janssen reported that his observations were a success, despite the caveat that it was "cloudy at intervals". Unfortunately, as the sources mentioned at the bottom have discovered, this record is no longer known to exist. The plates from several English parties who used cameras based on Janssen's for the transit don't seem to have faired too well, either, over the years—except for at least one that has been said to still be known to exist. (By the way, the English cameras were by John Henry Dallmeyer, who is also notable for having provided the lenses that helped to make possible Eadweard Muybridge's "automatic electro-photography" beginning in 1878 (see "Sallie Gardner at a Gallop" (1880))). The animation of images available on the web, including at YouTube, and in Tosi's educational film mentioned at the bottom are of a simulation conducted by Janssen earlier in 1874. Janssen presented artificial passages to the Académie des Sciences on 6 July 1874.
In addition to arguably being the first instance of cinematography, these images are also early examples of time-lapse photography and of scientific filmmaking. (By the way, part of Tosi's thesis is that cinema was invented out of the research needs of science by the likes of Janssen, Muybridge, Marey and others and not as spectacle, i.e. by the likes of Thomas Edison, W.K.L. Dickson and the Lumière brothers).
Chronophotography, or cinematography, weren't of main interest to Janssen, though, but, rather, a means to aid his scientific research, as was also the case for Marey. Of the rest of his life, Janssen was an accomplished astronomer, including discovering the gas helium. Nevertheless, he continued to take part in the invention of motion pictures in another way, by appearing in the work of Marey and the Lumière brothers. These Frenchman, of course, would be among the first to invent celluloid film cameras and projectors. On 1 January 1884, Janssen posed wearing a turban and smoking a cigarette for close-up chronophotographs on a disc made by Marey (see the book "Picturing Time" by Marta Braun). On 11 June 1895, he was among the French photographic society filmed disembarking from a boat in "Débarquement du congrès des photographes à Lyon", which the Lumière brothers projected the next day at a private Cinématographe screening for them. Janssen also appeared in the Lumière film "Discussion de Monsieur Janssen et de Monsieur Lagrange", for which during the projection of it, he and Lagrange hid behind the screen and reenacted the dialogue of that discussion (source: Stephen Herbert, Who's Who of Victorian Cinema website). Additionally, Janssen met Edison in 1889 while the "Wizard of Menlo Park" was in Paris and introduced him to the Académie des Sciences and to Marey (source: Braun). Although most people today may not know much about the true invention of the movies, Marey and the Lumière brothers knew whose shoulders they were standing on.
Main sources: the essay "Jules Janssen's 'Revolver Photographique' and its British Derivative, 'The Janssen Slide'" by Françoise Launay and Peter D. Hingley and the book "Cinema Before Cinema: the Origins of Scientific Cinematography" and film "The Origins of Scientific Cinematography: the Pioneers" (1990) both by Virgilio Tosi.
The oldest entry on imdb
AlsExGal5 July 2023
French scientist Pierre-Jules-César Janssen (1824-1907), a keen observer of eclipses (and now most famous as the discoverer of Helium), decided to try and capture the motion of Venus crossing the sun through sequence photography, which was a milestone in the development of cinema itself. But at this point we are still in the realm of the individual photograph.
Janssen's mission was to capture the point of contact between planet and sun during an eclipse, since this could help determine solar distance more precisely. Since the exact moment that this would occur could not be determined, he did not want to depend upon a single photograph that might miss the event entirely. Instead he decided to take a rapid sequence of photographs. He achieved this by constructing his cinematic revolver. The revolver was somewhat similar to a Colt revolver. It was driven by a clockwork-driven Maltese Cross-like mechanism capable of taking 48 exposures on a Daguerreotype plate over a period of 72 seconds.
Daguerreotypes were becoming an antiquated technology by this time, but, as Stephen Herbert explains -" the metal plate ensured an absence of flare that could have been a problem if a glass plate had been used - and a wet plate would in any case have been inconvenient to use in such a camera. With the sun as the source there was no shortage of light, so the 'slow' daguerreotype process was ideal."
Jannsen traveled to Japan to take his photos, and they were presented the following year as individual images. It would be several years before they could be presented as an animated sequence. Yet here they are, the first chronological entry on imdb.
Janssen's mission was to capture the point of contact between planet and sun during an eclipse, since this could help determine solar distance more precisely. Since the exact moment that this would occur could not be determined, he did not want to depend upon a single photograph that might miss the event entirely. Instead he decided to take a rapid sequence of photographs. He achieved this by constructing his cinematic revolver. The revolver was somewhat similar to a Colt revolver. It was driven by a clockwork-driven Maltese Cross-like mechanism capable of taking 48 exposures on a Daguerreotype plate over a period of 72 seconds.
Daguerreotypes were becoming an antiquated technology by this time, but, as Stephen Herbert explains -" the metal plate ensured an absence of flare that could have been a problem if a glass plate had been used - and a wet plate would in any case have been inconvenient to use in such a camera. With the sun as the source there was no shortage of light, so the 'slow' daguerreotype process was ideal."
Jannsen traveled to Japan to take his photos, and they were presented the following year as individual images. It would be several years before they could be presented as an animated sequence. Yet here they are, the first chronological entry on imdb.
First ever movie
que-6829710 May 2019
Changed my life
beetle-259-55414822 July 2017
This film won every award at the 1874 Oscars.
The very first moving picture was of the planet Venus.... taken from a time when we though every planet in the solar system could contain life... the person who filmed this must have wondered if anything was looking back at him from Venus....
The very first moving picture was of the planet Venus.... taken from a time when we though every planet in the solar system could contain life... the person who filmed this must have wondered if anything was looking back at him from Venus....
Still hasn't found her arms.
GiraffeDoor17 October 2022
I couldn't resist commenting on this and trying to fill 600 words.
Quite literally out of this world (I am so clever...) this efficiently paced documentary does not overbear us with sentimental narration or a mawkish score, it just lets its subject matter speak for itself.
A vision of the passing planet that may indeed be a metaphor for the ephemeral nature of existence or may indeed not be.
In all seriousness, I admire how these people, who were not artists but scientists, embraced the new technology for the study and documentation of their passion.
As a wise bunny once said "It doesn't have a lot of female or minority characters, but it doesn't have any white male characters either so I guess it's OK".
Venus has indeed been an inspiration from antiquity to modernity.
Quite literally out of this world (I am so clever...) this efficiently paced documentary does not overbear us with sentimental narration or a mawkish score, it just lets its subject matter speak for itself.
A vision of the passing planet that may indeed be a metaphor for the ephemeral nature of existence or may indeed not be.
In all seriousness, I admire how these people, who were not artists but scientists, embraced the new technology for the study and documentation of their passion.
As a wise bunny once said "It doesn't have a lot of female or minority characters, but it doesn't have any white male characters either so I guess it's OK".
Venus has indeed been an inspiration from antiquity to modernity.
Pretty freakin' groundbreaking
rtivey91314 June 2015
To most this may look simply like a home movie. But it's labeled the first movie ever actually made on IMDb. That's no small accomplishment. This 1-2 second movement of Venus across the sun is not only mentally exciting, but also incredibly groundbreaking. I myself cannot confirm if it's actually Venus going across the sun, but if it is, it also showcases an excellent appearance of space movement, which was still in its relative infancy in photography.
I doubt this was actually filmed frame by frame. They could've most likely just took a few photographs on a standstill camera and wrapped them all together to create the illusion of movement. But hey. Isn't that what stop motion is about? So not only is it the first movie ever, the first movie to show the sun looking good, it's also the first stop motion movie ever made. Isn't that incredible?
I probably would've given this a lower rating if it was newer, but since it's the first of it's kind, I think it's well deserving of a 9.
I doubt this was actually filmed frame by frame. They could've most likely just took a few photographs on a standstill camera and wrapped them all together to create the illusion of movement. But hey. Isn't that what stop motion is about? So not only is it the first movie ever, the first movie to show the sun looking good, it's also the first stop motion movie ever made. Isn't that incredible?
I probably would've given this a lower rating if it was newer, but since it's the first of it's kind, I think it's well deserving of a 9.
REVIEW: Passage of Venus (1874), A landmark in the history of cinema
damiaovictorl10 July 2023
Warning: Spoilers
"Passagem de Vênus (Passage de Venus)" is a silent short film in black and white from 1874, considered one of the first moving records in the history of cinema. Lasting just a few seconds, the film depicts a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun. These images were captured by French inventor P. J. C. Janssen, who developed the Photographic Revolver, an innovative camera system that allowed consecutive image sequences to be obtained.
The passage of Venus across the face of the sun in 1874 aroused great interest among scientists at the time, leading to several expeditions to the best observation points around the world. At least 62 parties visited 80 different sites in meticulous preparation to obtain objective and permanent records of this astronomical event.
When watching the short film "Passagem de Vênus (Passage de Venus)", it is evident that its historical importance surpasses its quality as a cinematographic work. The low quality of the images, resulting from the technological limitations of the time, made it difficult to clearly identify the transit of Venus over the Sun. The description provided along with the movie offers more information than the movie itself, which limits its enjoyment as a complete cinematic experience.
In terms of acting, direction, screenplay, cinematography and soundtrack, it is important to mention that this short film does not have these traditional elements, since it is a series of photographs in sequence. Therefore, it is not possible to assess these specific aspects of production.
Considering its historical relevance as one of the first moving records and Janssen's pioneering work in the creation of the Photographic Revolver, "Passagem de Vênus" deserves recognition as an important milestone in the development of cinema. However, for contemporary viewers, its main attraction lies in its curiosity and appreciation of the fundamental role it played in the evolution of the cinematographic medium.
The passage of Venus across the face of the sun in 1874 aroused great interest among scientists at the time, leading to several expeditions to the best observation points around the world. At least 62 parties visited 80 different sites in meticulous preparation to obtain objective and permanent records of this astronomical event.
When watching the short film "Passagem de Vênus (Passage de Venus)", it is evident that its historical importance surpasses its quality as a cinematographic work. The low quality of the images, resulting from the technological limitations of the time, made it difficult to clearly identify the transit of Venus over the Sun. The description provided along with the movie offers more information than the movie itself, which limits its enjoyment as a complete cinematic experience.
In terms of acting, direction, screenplay, cinematography and soundtrack, it is important to mention that this short film does not have these traditional elements, since it is a series of photographs in sequence. Therefore, it is not possible to assess these specific aspects of production.
Considering its historical relevance as one of the first moving records and Janssen's pioneering work in the creation of the Photographic Revolver, "Passagem de Vênus" deserves recognition as an important milestone in the development of cinema. However, for contemporary viewers, its main attraction lies in its curiosity and appreciation of the fundamental role it played in the evolution of the cinematographic medium.
Surprisingly Good Condition for a 150 Year-Old Film
m_chesnok19 August 2021
I feel like that's something we don't talk about enough. Sure, it's scratchy, but for the oldest surviving film, the quality's held up marvelously.
As for the rest of it... eh. I give it props for being the first of it's kind, but other than that, there's not much going for it. If I didn't look up the backstory for this piece, I wouldn't have the slightest clue as to what I'm looking at.
As for the rest of it... eh. I give it props for being the first of it's kind, but other than that, there's not much going for it. If I didn't look up the backstory for this piece, I wouldn't have the slightest clue as to what I'm looking at.
this hits very hard
clangendoen18 May 2022
Six Seconds of Science
view_and_review5 September 2022
I watched the short "Roundhay Garden Scene" which was recorded in 1888 and thought, "Certainly there can't be any moving pictures older than this." Then "Passage de Venus" was suggested. If I was shocked that moving pictures went as far back as 1888, I was stunned to see something dated 1874.
Per Wikipedia it was shot by a French astronomer in Japan. It is supposedly Venus passing in front of the sun. Who am I to argue? The footage, as you can imagine, is very grainy and of poor quality. I'm surprised it survived long enough to be made into a digital format. It's only six seconds long and without being told, it's anyone's guess what you're looking at. One thing is for sure, you're looking at history, and that's enough for me.
Per Wikipedia it was shot by a French astronomer in Japan. It is supposedly Venus passing in front of the sun. Who am I to argue? The footage, as you can imagine, is very grainy and of poor quality. I'm surprised it survived long enough to be made into a digital format. It's only six seconds long and without being told, it's anyone's guess what you're looking at. One thing is for sure, you're looking at history, and that's enough for me.
You have to start somewhere
Horst_In_Translation22 November 2015
Warning: Spoilers
"Passage de Venus" is an 1874 black-and-white silent short film that only runs for a couple seconds. It is the only movie by Frenchman P.J.C. Janssen. It is considered among the very first motion pictures (truest sense of the word) and possibly even being the earliest there is. As the title says this is not on the goddess Venus, but this is actually an astronomical movie including the sun and planet Venus. However, I would not have known this from watching this film. The description here tells us really a lot more than what we find out while watching the film. It's really only known for being the first film, not at all for quality or anything. It has nothing on the later films of the 19th century, especially Méliès and nobody should see "Passage de Venus" apart from film historians perhaps.
Feel like history was made on that very day
salemwest-5804520 December 2019
This is probably the oldest film on IMDB.
Whether this is a film or not, it's hard to say, as this is 6 seconds of images put together. This technique may have been performed before by other men, but this is the oldest record we have. The initial intentions were not to catch movement for its own sake, but multiple shots were required because you were unable to specify the exact time of the Venus passing in the sky. It still makes me think, though, how far we have come 145 years later. It brings a combination of joy and sadness to see these images, it makes me wonder what was that day in Jules Janssen's mind. When listening to Alexander Graham Bell capturing his own voice, projecting to the future, this set of pictures makes you feel like history was made on that very day.
Check Films by the year. YouTube. Also Letterboxd
looolzah17 August 2021
Check Films by the year. YouTube. Hello hello miss love galip Yyyhhh was the time to get my Christmas Christmas gifts from my Old I am so happy I wanna I love your dreams come on you are just beautiful women males gender sexual good life just curious what did she do with the book she said it would also make her think about sexual.
1904 Palestine - proramme documetaire 1906 buffon dance 1908 Narren-grappen 1914 varahaisia filmiäänkokeito 1915 diplodocus 1919 kulshev effect 1923 saad zaghloul back 1926 villiers?
1932 miss norah blaney 1934 doomsday.
1904 Palestine - proramme documetaire 1906 buffon dance 1908 Narren-grappen 1914 varahaisia filmiäänkokeito 1915 diplodocus 1919 kulshev effect 1923 saad zaghloul back 1926 villiers?
1932 miss norah blaney 1934 doomsday.
EL INICIO AL SÉPTIMO ARTE
comandanteredz13 February 2021
DEBIDO A QUE ES MUY ANTIGUA , ESTAS SERIES DE IMÁGENES QUE NO SE APRECIAN TAN BIEN QUE DIGAMOS Y ES LÓGICO , FUE UNO DE LOS PRIMEROS PASOS EN LA HISTORIA DE LA FOTOGRAFÍA Y AL MISMO TIEMPO EL INICIO A ÉSTE MARAVILLOSO MUNDO DEL CINE QUE AHORA DISFRUTAMOS. PERO PARA SU ÉPOCA EL PODER CALIFICARLA DE MANERA POSITIVA AÚN ES BAJA, ÉSTO POCO A POCO IRÁ CAMBIANDO CON EL PASAR DE LOS AÑOS Y EL CINE EVOLUCIONARÁ.
LUEGO GRACIAS A LOS AVANCES EN LA TECNOLOGÍA SE PODRÁ DISFRUTAR DEL CINE EN TODO SU ESPLENDOR .
The start of film history
thomasgouldsbrough22 February 2022
A Marvel
Geczodia24 May 2022
Although I would argue "Man Walking Around the Corner" as the first film, in a sort of semi-modern sense (also arguable considering the medium it was shot on), IMDB classifies "Passage de Venus" as such. The series of photos shot by Pierre Jules César Janssen of the beginning of the transit of Venus across the Sun is something to behold within the context of the time. Surely an observation of this sort in the quality that this film is in, would be largely overlooked in the modern world, but is clearly the opposite for the time it was shot. And I believe many people nowadays, even, would be surprised at the level of mechanics that was available during the 1870s; a mere 10 years after the American Civil War.
No matter which film is classified as the first, the concept owes itself to all those who worked to pioneer it and those who helped support it in its infant stages, such as Janssen, Muybridge, Le Prince, and as much as I hate to say it Edison. I like to imagine what these progenitors of modern film would think of what their invention has become, and I like to imagine they'd be elated at the beauty.
No matter which film is classified as the first, the concept owes itself to all those who worked to pioneer it and those who helped support it in its infant stages, such as Janssen, Muybridge, Le Prince, and as much as I hate to say it Edison. I like to imagine what these progenitors of modern film would think of what their invention has become, and I like to imagine they'd be elated at the beauty.
The First Attempt to Create a Motion Picture . . . so why the low ratings?
Tornado_Sam15 December 2017
How could anyone (besides an idiot) give this short such a low rating? I'm annoyed at what I'm seeing. This is one of the first attempts at making a film, and you idiots give it a 2? A 3? That is really poor on your part. I'll tell you why.
First of all, where do you think today's movies came from? Did cinema evolve out of nowhere? Of course not! Cinema had to progress. People had to get their ideas, experiment, mess around, whatever. You cannot give this such a low rating! Yes, it's a scratchy mess, and impossible to identify what it's about, but you have to start somewhere. So maybe it's not exactly a great film in itself, but still deserves at least a 7.
The guy who gave it a 10 was really thinking about it. He understood. You cannot criticize it for its scratchiness or anything. The fact it is one of the earliest attempts at filmmaking is enough.
I will admit it's not a true film. As IMDb's summary states, it is merely photographs, and is not 'filmed', per say, on a filmstrip. The first true celluloid film was Louis le Prince's "Roundhay Garden Scene" in 1888, but until then this is an important movie suggesting the beginning of our medium. It is also important because the event it portrays is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that we wouldn't be able to witness today. But, thanks to Pierre Janssen, we can.
First of all, where do you think today's movies came from? Did cinema evolve out of nowhere? Of course not! Cinema had to progress. People had to get their ideas, experiment, mess around, whatever. You cannot give this such a low rating! Yes, it's a scratchy mess, and impossible to identify what it's about, but you have to start somewhere. So maybe it's not exactly a great film in itself, but still deserves at least a 7.
The guy who gave it a 10 was really thinking about it. He understood. You cannot criticize it for its scratchiness or anything. The fact it is one of the earliest attempts at filmmaking is enough.
I will admit it's not a true film. As IMDb's summary states, it is merely photographs, and is not 'filmed', per say, on a filmstrip. The first true celluloid film was Louis le Prince's "Roundhay Garden Scene" in 1888, but until then this is an important movie suggesting the beginning of our medium. It is also important because the event it portrays is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that we wouldn't be able to witness today. But, thanks to Pierre Janssen, we can.
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