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Passage of Venus(Movie, 1874)

Original title: "Passage de Venus" (French/FR)
1min | Genre: Documentary
Passage of VenusRating: 3.1/5 (with 4242 votes)
Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 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" listed 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 if any of the many plates successfully exposed during the eclipse have survived, their whereabouts are unknown. ()
Movie poster of Passage of Venus

About Passage of Venus

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.

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Additional Information

Production country: France
Original language: French (FR)
Spoken languages: No Language (XX)
Translated into 7 languages: Czech (CS), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Portuguese (PT), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Unknown
Release date DE: 12/09/1874
Director: Pierre Janssen
Other Team Members: Francisco Antônio de Almeida Júnior
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Транзит Венеры"
Color: Black & White (B/W)

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