CINEMA - Passage de Vénus by Jules Janssen and Francisco Antônio de Almeida 1874

 

Passage de Vénus

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'.

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.

 

 

The team that captured the transit of Venus in 1874   -   Unknown author

The transit as seen from Japan by Pierre Janssen - Pierre Jules César Janssen (1824-1907)

 

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Passage de Venus (1874) by Pierre Janssen