c. 1840 Animated Daguerreotype

These two daguerreotypes were taken in rapid succession, allowing for a modern animation. According to the Nelson-Atkins Museum, they were taken in 1839/40, possibly by John William Draper. However, no explanation is offered to these conclusions. The subject may be a Rev. William Demarest.
I believe this is the earliest example of photographs taken in rapid succession, at least of a person. Other examples were taken several hours apart (such as Daguerre's Boulevard du Temple of 1837/38).
See list of earliest born people filmed: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
See list of first portrait photographs:
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...
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Tags: Muybridge, history of cinema, zoopraxiscope, animation, victorian film, Lumiere brothers, 1800s, 1840s, fashion, 1878

[@Schifffahrtsgeschichte]

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[@HansDunkelberg1]

That such a set of two images largely already produces the impression of a continuous movement, of course, is due to the situation that our brains anyway only process a limited number of still images. The experts now do not any more assume a constant frame rate with which the eye would work (I remember to have read about such a rate of 16 frames per second, in the later 20th century), but in the practice of filmmaking, one still can observe that at the latest somewhere beyond fifty or sixty images per second (typically already much earlier), a human being loses the ability to notice what one of such images shows. I presume that our brains will have us notice (and keep in mind) fewer images when we categorize a thing seen as of little importance, and vice versa. A man reading a newspaper will be categorized as being of little importance.