First anime

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Sat Aug 20, 2005 12:14 -0700

In this article from the Mainichi Shimbun (Daily Newspaper), the oldest piece of anime has been discovered in Kyoto.

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/ ... 7000c.html

The film, made shortly after 1900, was discovered in a home and turned over to experts at the Osaka University of Arts. The sequence consists of 50 frames, and features a boy in a sailor suit who writes "katsudo shashin" (moving pictures) with a brush, then removes his hat and salutes.

Fanfan · Post by **Fanfan** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 5:16 -0700

Wow, thanks for the news ! i hope we will watch it soon, very first anime of this time were poetical...

for the history of animation, have a look here :
http://www.filmsite.org/animatedfilms.html

And especially about MacKay :
http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/mccay.htm

hakucho · Post by **hakucho** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 9:58 -0700

Stan, the link you provided doesn't seem to be working

Is the name of the artist behind this anime given, by the way?

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Tue Sep 20, 2005 22:11 -0700

hakucho wrote:Stan, the link you provided doesn't seem to be working

Is the name of the artist behind this anime given, by the way?

Here is a link to the cached page...
http://cc.msnscache.com/cache.aspx?q=22 ... &FORM=CVRE

According to the article, the artist is unknown...