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Oldest Known Video Footage - Newark Athlete (0:29)

submitted by Stingray

1 decade 5 years 7 months 2 weeks ago

The silent clip shows a young man swinging a set of Indian clubs. The event was filmed sometime during the spring of 1891 on an Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera, using 3/4-inch wide film.

The clip is believed to be one of the oldest, if not the oldest, film clips still extant from Edison's New Jersey studios. The oldest known film footage, the two-second "Roundhay Garden Scene," is of British origin and dates from 1888.

Text from: http://www.betanews.com/article/Library-of-Congress-posts-1891-film-footage-and-ancient-LOLcats/1239139975

6 Comments

if there was ever a use for the vintage channel, this would definatly be it O.O

I'm not so certain they were using "video" back then.

flechette says...

Add some garbled screams to that and you've got a b horror flick!

mugwumpj says...

Kino has a great four disc set of Edison Company films.
http://www.kino.com/edison/

Wow, I don't even have a playlist to fit this one in! Cool.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'newark athlete, library of congress, oldest known video footage, 1891' to 'newark athlete, library of congress, oldest, moving pictures, 1891' - edited by jonny

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