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Oldest Japanese Animation Frames Found Date: 10/18/2005 |
| Asahi Shimbun reports frames from the oldest known Japanese animation have been discovered in Kyoto, and has film historians abuzz. Until now, the oldest animated work was thought to be one produced in 1917, during the Taisho Era (1912-1926). But Natsuki Matsumoto, 53, a lecturer of iconology at the Osaka University of Arts, said the new film, which he discovered, looks to be older. Considering the manufacturing date on the projector that was preserved along with it, the film was made between 1907 and 1911 at the latest," he said. That would put it in the late Meiji Era (1868-1912). |
| Source: Anime News Service |
