Passage de Vénus
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Passage de Vénus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun on 9 December 1874.[1] They were purportedly taken in Japan by the French astronomer Jules Janssen and Brazilian engineer Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's 'photographic revolver'.[2][3][4]
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It is the oldest "film" listed on IMDb and Letterboxd.[5][6]
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.[7]