Passage of Venus (1874)

Name: Passage of Venus
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1874-12-09

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Plot.

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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Cast & Crew.

P.J.C. Janssen

Director

Francisco Antônio de Almeida Júnior

Director

Media.

Details.

Release Date
December 9, 1874

Original Name
Passage de Venus

Status
Released

Running Time
1m

Filming Locations
Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2024-11-14

This Movie Is About.

silent film

astronomy

venus the planet

19th century

Wiki.

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.