Still frame from Nevil Maskelyne's footage of a solar eclipse
Still frame from Nevil Maskelyne's footage of a solar eclipse, filmed in North Carolina on May 28, 1900. Credit: Royal Astronomical Society / BFI
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First Ever Solar Eclipse Film Brough Back to Life

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Still frame from Nevil Maskelyne's footage of a solar eclipse
Still frame from Nevil Maskelyne’s footage of a solar eclipse, filmed in North Carolina on May 28, 1900. Credit: Royal Astronomical Society / BFI

London, UK-(ENEWSPF)- The BFI and the Royal Astronomical Society have announced the rediscovery of the earliest moving picture of a total solar eclipse from 1900, the first ever solar eclipse film. The original film fragment held in The Royal Astronomical Society’s archive has been painstakingly scanned and restored in 4K by…

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