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Passage of Venus

Passage of Venus

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 9, 1874

Runtime

0h 1m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

63%

Original Title

Passage de Venus

Director

P.J.C. Janssen

Description

Photo sequence of the rare transit of Venus over the face of the Sun, one of the first chronophotographic sequences. In 1873, P.J.C. Janssen, or Pierre Jules César Janssen, invented the Photographic Revolver, which captured a series of images in a row. The device, automatic, produced images in a row without human intervention, being used to serve as photographic evidence of the passage of Venus before the Sun, in 1874.