It is the oldest film on IMDb and Letterboxd.
On December 9, 1874, french astronomer Pierre Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's ' photographic revolver' photograph the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun. 1874 – Passage de Vénus, first precedent of a film.There's no clue if more than one camera was used in the shoot, but it's certainly well-executed. As the sequence revolves around space rather than time it is even more related to the bullet-time effect popularized by The Matrix about 135 years later. This could be regarded as a predecessor to the chronophotography which Marey and Muybridge started to experiment with more than 10 years later. Except for a smile in 1 frame, not even a fold in his jacket or a single hair seems to change between the different angles. Around 1865 he produced this series of self-portraits consisting of 12 frames showing different angles of him sitting still in a chair. 1865 – Revolving, self-portrait by French photographer Nadar.1833 – Since 1833 onwards, 'animated films' or rather animated effects began to be made with the use of phénakisticopes, zoetropes and praxinoscopes.1826 – View from the Window at Le Gras, Nicéphore Niépce takes the oldest known extant photograph.It is possible that people at the time actually viewed such photographs come to life with a phénakisticope or zoetrope (this certainly happened with Muybridge's work). The sequences were basically made as time-lapse recordings. Before Muybridge's 1878 work, photo sequences were not recorded in real-time because light-sensitive emulsions needed a long exposure time.
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