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A Movie From Before Movies Were Invented

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the break-out-the-huey-lewis dept.

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."

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  1. Read: by reub2000 · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's a boring news day so we're going to post something crap about a movie made before movies that no one cares about.