animation in Japan. Three seconds long, it depicts a boy who writes
"moving picture" in Japanese script, removes his hat, and waves.
Discovered in a collection of films and projectors in Kyoto, its creator
is unknown. Natsuki Matsumoto, an expert in iconography at the Osaka
University of Arts, determined that it was most likely made before 1912.
It may have been influenced by animated filmstrips for German
cinematographs, devices that first appeared in Japan in 1904. Evidence
suggests Katsudō Shashin was mass-produced to be sold to wealthy owners
of home projectors. To Matsumoto, the relatively poor quality and low-
tech printing technique indicate it was likely from a smaller film
company. Unlike in traditional animation, the frames were not produced
by photographing the images, but were impressed directly onto film. They
were stencilled in red and black using a device for making magic lantern
slides, and the filmstrip was fastened in a loop for continuous play.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katsud%C5%8D_Shashin>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1543:
King Henry VIII of England married Catherine Parr, his sixth
and last wife, at Hampton Court Palace.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Parr>
1843:
Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement,
proclaimed a revelation recommending polygamy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_Latter_Day_Saint_polygamy>
1920:
The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty was signed, with Soviet
Russia agreeing to recognize an independent Lithuania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Lithuanian_Peace_Treaty>
1986:
The Homosexual Law Reform Act became law in New Zealand,
decriminalising consensual homosexual sex.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_Law_Reform_Act_1986>
2006:
Hezbollah forces crossed the Israel–Lebanon border and
attacked Israeli military positions while firing rockets and mortars at
Israeli towns, sparking a five-week war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Hezbollah_cross-border_raid>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
until the cows come home:
(idiomatic) For a very long period of time.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/until_the_cows_come_home>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If you take all the machinery in the world and dump it in the
ocean, within months more than half of all humanity will die and within
another six months they'd almost all be gone; if you took all the
politicians in the world, put them in a rocket, and sent them to the
moon, everyone would get along fine.
--Buckminster Fuller
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller>
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