World's Oldest Motion Picture (1865) | Colorized Film

"The world's oldest photographic moving picture sequence and oldest sound recording, combined together. Legendary French photographer Felix Nadar created his revolving portrait in 1865, a precurser to the later sequential photo work of Muybridge and Marey. Here it is, animated into motion, as we listen to Leon Scott's "Jeune Jouvencelle", the earliest known sound recording inscribed with a specific date, August 17, 1857. This recording was made at an early stage of Scott's work, before a tuning fork was used to calibrate pitch fluctuations ; therefore the "tune" cannot be corrected to a recognizable melody, but we certainly can recognize it as the sound of a human voice. Both works are in public domain. Special thanks to FirstSounds.org for the sound recording."