Passage de Vénus
Passage de Venus (1874)
The team that captured the transit of Venus in 1874
Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun in 1874. They were purportedly taken in Japan by the French astronomer Jules Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's 'photographic revolver'.[1][2][3]
It is the oldest film on IMDb and Letterboxd.
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.[4]
See also[]
- The Horse in Motion, 1878 series of photographs
- Transit of Venus, 1874
References[]
- ^ Doucet, Jean-François. "La "photographie du temps" avant le cinéma" ["Time photography" before cinema]. www.jf-doucet.com (in French). Retrieved 2016-02-20.
- ^ "The 1874 Transit of Venus Observed in Japan by the French, and Associated Relics". adsabs.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2016-08-01.
- ^ "The Brazilian contribution to the observation of the transit of Venus". adsabs.harvard.edu.
- ^ http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/2005JHA....36...57L/0000070.000.html
External links[]
- Passage de Venus at IMDb
- Passage de Venus on YouTube
- Passage de Vénus is available for free download at the Internet Archive
 | This article related to a French silent film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
 | This article about a scientific documentary film is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
Categories:
- 1874 films
- Documentary films about space
- Films directed by Pierre Janssen
- Films shot in Japan
- French documentary films
- Transit of Venus
- Venus in film
- French films
- French silent short films
- 1874 directorial debut films
- Silent French film stubs
- Science documentary film stubs