''Passage de Vénus'' is a series of photographs of the
transit
Transit may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Film
* ''Transit'' (1979 film), a 1979 Israeli film
* ''Transit'' (2005 film), a film produced by MTV and Staying-Alive about four people in countries in the world
* ''Transit'' (2006 film), a 2006 ...
of the planet
Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun. It is sometimes called Earth's "sister" or "twin" planet as it is almost as large and has a similar composition. As an interior planet to Earth, Venus (like Mercury) appears in Earth's sky never f ...
across the
Sun
The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. It is a nearly perfect ball of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core. The Sun radiates this energy mainly as light, ultraviolet, and infrared radi ...
on 9 December 1874. They were purportedly taken in
Japan by the
French astronomer
Jules Janssen
Pierre Jules César Janssen (22 February 1824 – 23 December 1907), usually known as Jules Janssen, was a French astronomer who, along with English scientist Joseph Norman Lockyer, is credited with discovering the gaseous nature of the solar ...
and Brazilian engineer
Francisco Antônio de Almeida using Janssen's '
photographic revolver'.
It is the oldest "film" listed on
IMDb
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and
Letterboxd
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.
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 or have not yet been located.
See also
* ''
The Horse in Motion
''The Horse in Motion'' is a series of cabinet cards by Eadweard Muybridge, including six cards that each show a sequential series of six to twelve "automatic electro-photographs" depicting the movement of a horse. Muybridge shot the photogr ...
'', 1878 series of photographs
*
Transit of Venus, 1874
The 1874 transit of Venus, which took place on 9 December 1874 (01:49 to 06:26 UTC), was the first of the pair of transits of Venus that took place in the 19th century, with the second transit occurring eight years later in 1882. The previous p ...
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1870s photographs
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Transit of Venus
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French silent short films
1874 directorial debut films