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Short film of 300 individually painted images. A lost film.
Status
Released
Original Language
FR

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or Pierre Jules César Janssen, invented the Photographic Revolver, which captured a series of images in a row. The device, automatic, produced images in a row without human intervention, being used to serve as photographic evidence of the passage of Venus before the Sun, in 1874.

Three men hammer on an anvil and pass a bottle of beer around. Notable for being the first film in which a scene is being acted out.