Passage de Venus

Passage de Venus is a series of photographs of the transit of the planet Venus across the Sun in 1874. They were purportedly taken in Japan by the French astronomer Pierre Janssen using his 'photographic revolver'.
It is the oldest film on IMDb.
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 that none of the many plates successfully exposed during the eclipse seem to have survived.
Category:1874 films
Category:1870s films
Category:Films
Category:Silent films
Category:Short films
Category:Documentary films about space
Category:Films directed by Pierre Janssen
Category:Films shot in Japan
Category:French documentary films
Category:Venus in film
Category:French films
Category:French silent short films