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A Movie From Before Movies Were Invented
Alien54 writes "Two astronomers at the Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton near San Jose have discovered a set of 147 plates taken of the transit of Venus in 1882. They've assembled them into a Quicktime movie! Think about it. This is a movie from before movies were invented. As a point of comparison, Edison didn't get his films going until the 1890s. This is just around the time when Muybridge was doing his work on the motion of horses and people."
I'm pretty sure there's plates of porn somewhere from the 17'th century. They're always the first ones to use new technology.
Looks like the USPTO need to look at any patents on quicktime again!
Yet more prior art discovered.
A sysadmin for Sky and Telescope just sat down for Easter dinner, and then his beeper goes ....
Sky&Tele: Hey, uh Mike
SysAdmin: Ya?
Sky&Tele: See, we have this little problem....
SysAdmin: How bad could it possibl...well, damn.
Its a Quicktime clip made 109 years before Quicktime 1.0 was released! Or at least thats as true as it being a movie made prior to movies being invented.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Not quite prior art, but I remember doodling sequential drawings on the page edges of my textbooks... Does it count as parallel development?
Depends on whether you were doing it in the 19th century.
"by having multiple cameras expose in sequence"
So like bullet time then? So the Matrix is sort of Muybridge Reloaded?
here it is..
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(scroll & blink rapidly..)
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