Katsudou Shashin
Japanese title: 活動写真
Alternative titles: Matsumoto Fragment
Type: Movie
Source: Original
Episodes: 1
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Not available
Duration: 3 sec
Rating: G - All Ages

A young boy dressed in sailor attire and a bright red cap is shown to write the Japanese kanji characters translating to the phrase "moving picture." As he completes writing the phrase, he faces toward the viewer and bows.

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Katsudou Shashin consists of fifty frames of celluloid strip in its three-second duration, with sixteen frames per second. Discovered in 2004, having been purchased with a private collection in Kyoto, it is suspected to have been created between 1905 and 1911. This would make it one of the oldest pieces of animation from Japan.