Ten Years Older than Previously Accepted "Earliest"

[Banana_Boat]

Hey guys, this is some interesting news (I hope) from Anime News Network. I apologise if this is pointless.

The oldest animated film created in Japan and screened has been found in Kyoto. Up until now the oldest Japanese animation was believed to be Shimokawa Hekoten's "Imokawa Mukozo the Doorman," from 1917, but this newfound animation, on 35mm film, could be as much as ten years older.

Matsumoto Natsuki, a part time lecturer at the Osaka-Tokyo University of Arts and Music found the 50-frame film in an old family projector in Kyoto amongst a collection of foreign animation. It was hand-drawn in two colors, red and black, directly onto the celluloid. The creator is unknown.

In the first decade of the 1900s there were very few cinemas in Japan and only the wealthy owned projectors.

The animation depicts a young boy wearing a sailor suit writing "katsudoushashin" (movie) on a blackboard, turning around to face the audience and saluting. At 16 frames per second, the animation only lasts 3 seconds

[EmilLang1000]

::shock:: ... whoa... that's older than most Western animations. I'd like to see the comparisson of which is older, but to say the least, this isn't just a treasure for the Japanese, it's a treasure for the whole film and animation world. Also, it's the very first use of color in film, period (if memory serves)! That HAS to be worth millions, and will probably go down as a national treasure for the Japanese.

[DeinReich]

Hey guys, this is some interesting news (I hope) from Anime News Network. I apologise if this is pointless.

The oldest animated film created in Japan and screened has been found in Kyoto. Up until now the oldest Japanese animation was believed to be Shimokawa Hekoten's "Imokawa Mukozo the Doorman," from 1917, but this newfound animation, on 35mm film, could be as much as ten years older.

Matsumoto Natsuki, a part time lecturer at the Osaka-Tokyo University of Arts and Music found the 50-frame film in an old family projector in Kyoto amongst a collection of foreign animation. It was hand-drawn in two colors, red and black, directly onto the celluloid. The creator is unknown.

In the first decade of the 1900s there were very few cinemas in Japan and only the wealthy owned projectors.

The animation depicts a young boy wearing a sailor suit writing "katsudoushashin" (movie) on a blackboard, turning around to face the audience and saluting. At 16 frames per second, the animation only lasts 3 seconds

No, not pointless.

This is pretty interesting, I didn't even think that it would be possible to make animation with the kind of technology that there was in the 1910's let alone 10 years earlier. I'm guessing this would be an opening for some other movie perhaps?

[Banana_Boat]

No, not pointless.

This is pretty interesting, I didn't even think that it would be possible to make animation with the kind of technology that there was in the 1910's let alone 10 years earlier. I'm guessing this would be an opening for some other movie perhaps?

Perhaps....but it just may be a fake done recently.

thanks