THE DAY OUR PLANET STOOD ALWAYS (1951) & INTRODUCTION (2016) The first movie noted on IMDb and Letterboxd is not actually a film at all. In 1874, French astronomer Pierre Janssen had been part of an international work to look at and study the passage through of Venus against the sunrays. This incident best takes place every 120 many years, thus normally Janssen wanted to catch this once-in-a-lifetime show photographically if the guy could. To accomplish this, he devised the a€?photographic revolver,a€? a musical instrument effective at using 48 artwork in 72 moments that a€“ whenever seen in quick succession a€“ created a moving picture. The effect: passage through of Venus (1874). Though Janssen accurately thought that their development will help more the study of animal motion, the ...