Katsudou Shashin

The oldest known anime to have originated from Japan.

Made in the year 1907, that is the estimate. The creator? Unknown.

Found among old films and projectors acquired from an old Kyoto family in 2004 is a short filmstrip animation titled Katsudou Shashin also known as "Matsumoto fragment" is a short anime of two to three seconds of a school boy writing the words "活動写真" on a blackboard which translates roughly to "Moving Pictures", he then proceeds to take his red hat off and bows. And that's it.

I can give you the technical aspects of it, but I don't really care. There's nothing special about it. ... You can read up on it on Wikip*dia if you want. I want to express my feelings on this work and what I though about it.

I'm awed by it. By the history of it. This marked a great moment in Japan's history of animation.

Anime has become so much more with the imoutos and the power levels. I wonder if the cartoonist for this even imagined of a future where storytelling would be done frequently in this format to this extent with sakugas and whatnot. What a time to be alive.

This is where it all began. A pure and simple flipbook level anime of a boy writing the words moving pictures.

Check it out.

..or not. I'm not your mother. But I insist.