Watch the oldest surviving film of a total solar eclipse
The video was captured nearly 120 years ago by British magician-turned-filmmaker Nevil Maskelyne
This is the oldest surviving video of a total solar eclipse.
The grainy marvel was taken nearly 120 years ago on May 28, 1900, by a British magician-turned-filmmaker named Nevil Maskelyne, according to a report on May 30 from the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Film Institute in London. The original film fragment, captured on a British Astronomical Association expedition to North Carolina, was scanned and recently restored by conservation experts at the BFI National Archive.