Felix Nadar Spinning in his Chair (1865 Motion Picture, coupled with 1857 sound recording)

Legendary French photographer Felix Nadar created his revolving portrait in 1865, a precurser to the later sequential photo work of Muybridge and Marey. Here it is, animated into motion, as we listen to Leon Scott's "Jeune Jouvencelle", the earliest known sound recording inscribed with a specific date, August 17, 1857. This recording was made at an early stage of Scott's work, before a tuning fork was used to calibrate pitch fluctuations ; therefore the "tune" cannot be corrected to a recognizable melody, but we certainly can recognize it as the sound of a human voice. Both works are in public domain. Special thanks to FirstSounds.org for the sound recording.

[@susandiane311]

Won both the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture and the Grammy for Best Song in 1865 since there wasn't anything else to nominate.

[@daMacadamBlob]

You spin me right round...

[@LegendGaming-fp7xi]

AHAHAHAHA LMAO

[@CoolCoolPancakes]

Like a record baby

[@AmyCCloverlanez]

Macadam Blob: LMAO!

[@Paixpeacehippy]

😂😂💀💀

[@sophialove7976]

Macadam Blob LMAOO

[@mahatmakanejeeves3706]

Welcome to my nightmares

[@DinisFaria]

Mahatma Kane Jeeves LOL

[@VSDeluxe]

A gif before gif was invented

[@rysio0407]

Hahaha! This comment made me crack up soo hard!!! 🤣🤣👌🏼

[@mohammadbazzi5006]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 NO ONE CHASED YOU WITH THIS

[@elkinsinboxinc]

This is a good way to scare the crap out of somebody.

[@miraqlz7552]

holy shit yea...it reminds me of "the ring" for some reason.

[@nunyabiznez6381]

My third great grandfather studied under Louis Daguerre in France in 1845. In 1847 he was producing photographic images and selling them in his shop in Massachusetts and is listed in the 1848 city directory as a Daguerreotype artist and merchant. In 1861 he became a Massachusetts volunteer and went to fight in the civil war where he took a number of battle field photos. In 1864 he was wounded in battle and lost the use of his hands. So his career as a Daguerreotype artist ended with his wounds. He only took battlefield photos while he was away at war. I have several photographic sequences he created before his service in the Civil War which could be strung together to get a similar result if one wanted to. I would hardly call them motion pictures. One is about a dozen photographs of a toy horse and cart on a table. Each shows the toy in a different position along the table. Another was taken of the sun rising over Buzzards bay which has a date scratched into each image of 1857. There are five images of the sun rising. They are somewhat blurred due to the movement of the sun and flaws in the process. There are others. This was a common experiment among Daguerreotype artists, at least in America. I have seen two other pre Civil War Daguerreotype sequences in Museums in New England which may or may not have been taken by my ancestor who was one of I believe three earliest Daguerreotype artists in the region. I am in no way claiming that my third great grandfather created the earliest but rather pointing out that there were many earlier than the one in this video. I would guess one should look at the works of Louis Daguerre to see the earliest ones since he was the one who taught my ancestor.

[@sedevacante8840]

nunya biznez WAIT A MINUTE! You possibly own the worlds oldest Stop Motion animation! The one with the toy horse! It has commonly been believed by many that “The Humpty Dumpty Circus” from 1897 was the first Stop Motion. But now it seems like this toy horse film is! Do you have anyway of posting it?

[@heidi2166]

Great comment and I enjoyed reading it! I wish I could talk to descendants of Augustin Le Prince! It's amazing to me that cameras were created so long ago and look how much time it took to get where we are now. Can't help wonder if we had a little alien help along the way LOL

[@mrlemonade281]

Scan it and upload it NOW.

[@dkzVirtual]

@@sedevacante8840 Could it be?

[@CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui]

SHARE THE HORSE FILM

[@thecavedweller616]

imagine just sitting in a dark room for hours while watching this on-loop

[@ddenniscoleman3]

This is the inspiration to that 80s song You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

[@maddyfoxx4178]

I doubt it lol

[@bigmouthstrikesagain4056]

You compell me to in turn rotate like a Edison phonograph, Baby

[@SvendleBerries]

"Ill try spinning, thats a good trick!" - Felix Nadar, 1865

[@Filbi]

and that's how the Civil War was won

[@k.morris2236]

Brilliant!

[@andhyrheza5473]

the man is spinning while farting

[@naraka5028]

+Andhy Rheza XD

[@davidturbo8566]

Andhy Rheza lol

[@arfansthename]

TBH here, (why do I always say that?) The 'farting' sound is from the phonautograph. And what I mean by that is this: **clears throat** Somebody is recording a sound to the phonautograph without the horn, and this is the result: 0:00

[@HatedHumanist]

This bullshit attempt at humor gets 96 likes.

[@boballen1294]

That was his propulsion.

[@seannewhouse892]

A sudden lightning flash and you find yourself stuck in 1865 to live out a life of madness

[@dubldeka]

Nadar was the worlds first film star, in many ways he saw the potential of the new medium. His staged Balloon trip was probably the first photo documentary. Its a nice touch to add Scott de Martinville's early work to Nadar's image.

[@Oppaismasher]

This recording > One Direction.

[@miss-astronomikal-mcmxcvii]

This recording > Justin Bieber, too.

[@RadClasher]

This recording > lil pump

[@komahinacanon526]

Anything would be better than 1D

[@aestheticaltwat]

This recording > 85% of the shit that’s come out the past decade.

[@Mew_Master]

POV You’re watching every film ever made in order

[@jakksy_]

You Spin me round (like a record) 19th Century edition!

[@rammyfan_1014]

Jakksy hahahaha

[@zpigman8435]

Wow how amazing! What a great find! A video from 1865 and a song (or something of the sort) from 1857! Great!

[@beavis6982]

Better Than Some Videos From KZbin currently

[@ampdesign]

I had to wait through an unskippable KZbin ad to watch this

[@JimPigMuseumOfSound]

When KZbin first offered ads to monetize my videos, I declined. Now I’ve been overruled, I can’t stop the ads, and I get nothing for them.

[@josephrowe849]

Round and round! What comes around, goes around! I tell you why! Yeah! 🎸

[@swain-Ix1tv]

my food in the microwave

[@Chubachus]

A few months ago I found an earlier 360 degree self portrait photo group taken by Nadar's half-brother Adrien Tournachon which Getty says was taken around 1858. I made an animation of for my channel.

[@JimPigMuseumOfSound]

Mr. Chubachus, I greatly enjoy your channel and respect your work. In your honor, I am changing the title of my video.

[@Chubachus]

Thanks for the kind words, I have also enjoyed your posts for years. I also recently saw your comment on Patrick Feaster's channel from years ago. It is really too bad that he stopped posting his work on KZbin. His blog has so much amazing research and analysis.

[@pryvremena]

Freaking eerie!

[@senyaiv]

oldest sound recording was in 1853...

[@JimPigMuseumOfSound]

True, but Scott's recordings from '53 were only a split second long ... not a suitable length to couple it with any motion picture. See my "Leon Scott's Complete Discography" video, where I feature it in a user friendly context.

[@senyaiv]

TrappedIn1968 thanks you for expect, im already watch it.

[@momjosh12CARTOONS]

but it was lost

[@91souls]

+Monsters&SkunksAreCool2002 no it aint

[@JimPigMuseumOfSound]

You are partially correct. Although Scott's device was the first to record airborne sounds, there is an 1850 recording of a tuning fork made by direct contact (I created a brief video of it ; see it on my Google + page), and we can hear the playback of strips of Morse code transmissions ( I have the sounds of 4 of them in my collection, the earliest from 1838, two from 1844, and one from 1848. I created a video of the famous 1844 "What Hath God Wrought?", available on my channel.) They are the earliest "events" we can play back, but they are not really "sound recordings" in the literal sense.

[@THE3NEGOTIATOR1]

Well somebody has to say it. Still a better love story than Twilight.

[@THE3NEGOTIATOR1]

***** And yet it is still a better love story than Twilight. Gives you an idea about how bad a love story Twilight was...

[@rogermoore27]

😂😂😂😂. For real! Twilight is bovine excreta

[@leobe2104]

Man, people on the internet have always been overusing jokes. Just that nowadays it's morbius jokes

[@SStupendous]

@@leobe2104 actually got nostalgic for when people used to make those Twilight jokes ngl

[@leorospigg7722]

This is what they telegrammed over the wire, still has aged better than anything now

[@boredcrab2]

That was scary as hell

[@WeedShaggy]

The best part is when he said "it's spinning and squeaking" time and spin squeaked all over.

[@FunkyGranny9]

Whenever I see really old portraits, the people in them don't seem real to me. It's weird that this man is revolving in motion pictures and he still doesn't seem three-dimensional to me.

[@JimPigMuseumOfSound]

Check out First Sounds.Org and look for "Jeune Jouvencelle", dated August 17, 1857. It is a different and earlier recording than his better known "Au Clair De La Lune" of 1860. This recording was made at a point when Scott was not yet using a tuning fork to calibrate the speed fluctuations of his process, making it impossible for modern sound engineers to know how to correct the variations into a recognizable tune. Yet, It is still facinating to hear a voice shouting to us from the 1850's !

[@alkemistolucido9415]

Absolute Cinema

[@JimPigMuseumOfSound]

An inscription on the phonautogram identifies the content as "song at a distance", with the words "Jeune Jouvencelle" ("young little girl") written at the beginning and "les echos" ("the echoes") at the end -- possibly referring to the lyrics of a song as yet unidentified.

[@funnynamedottxt]

I don't know why they kept making movies after this, they already peaked

[@sharadbagadi6382]

excellent

[@robbo5life]

XD but it's creepy hearing a recording that wasn't meant to be played back!

[@BlueskysHauntedAdventures]

that's just creepy

[@Foggy_Morning]

Watched it and played the R&B hit "Will It Go Round In Circles" by Billy Preston. Perfect!

[@ZedF-vz9ph]

SPINNING FELIX SPINNING FELIX

[@thatgirlshae6913]

That noise is crazy.

[@lazurm]

Thank you! I checked it out. I'm wondering, though, if it's possible to retrieve corrected sounds from the earlier recordings made without tuning fork calibration by using data that was corrected, subsequently, as a starting point pattern, varying the pattern in small segments that expand in size as the correction yields incremental results.

[@thelivingdripunal2513]

Sounds like something we'd put in our dubstep nowadays...

[@teamwitch1174]

Pause somewhere around ten, he stares into your soul

[@AmyCCloverlanez]

graphics are amazing!!! ( lol) no but this is pretty cool to be able to see and hear. crazy how far we've come!

[@NerevarOfficialReal]

Ah yes, my favorite chair sound. The screams of tortured souls...

[@DIGITALSCREAMS]

This is exactly how I look and sound every Monday morning

[@Absolutely_puck_fakestine]

Mustachioed ?

[@cooperthedog9988]

+JasonPoophess mustached?

[@jkajmo]

That is what I look like AFTER I clean up, you can't even imagine what I look like Monday morning. My god am I a fugly fella.

[@Urlocallordandsavior]

Insert Bill Nye the Science Guy earrape.

[@TheAngeyMovieCritic]

That's where namco got the sounds for Galaga.

[@ferociousgumby]

Best thing on the internet

[@uncletomcobley6950]

Absolute MADLAD!!!!

[@andrewdemetrius8090]

Just as good as any of toady's artists without autotune.....

[@leksejregent]

Да это же первый в истории фильм со звуком!

[@grengar7763]

*insert you spin me right round here*

[@djbookreader]

I don't think I can sleep now

[@oparasatauwaya]

I know I'm supposed to be terrified of this, but I LOLed!

[@ThePenguinExpress]

he made several recordings. some before this, but they are ocmpletely unrecognizable. this one is fly little bee"

[@camq-py7bs]

Lmfao ok I'm done haha

[@Josh-le6lu]

You spin me right round.

[@BSNFabricating]

This is gonna haunt me from now on! YIKES!!!

[@TheManuelpuerta]

nice

[@shanuthejackal4817]

The recording probably sounds like that because it's so old!

[@agwrr71productions79]

More likely because there was no timecode with the recording. That means they don't know the correct speed this recording was made at.

[@lupepreciado5790]

me in a chair be like

[@C0L34321]

Come to MA i love your music

[@alberthy21st]

Memes before memes

[@169don8]

this scared tf outa me

[@dhfes9735]

这才是世界上最早的电影

[@CLSmith411]

this is the scariest video ever made

[@renepinilla6280]

+Joe Orbin. Thanks for sharing the video! Do you know who the man on the spinning picture is? Or is it unknown? Thank you!

[@JimPigMuseumOfSound]

The spinning man is Felix Nadar himself, in a revolving self-portrait. I suppose this can be considered an early selfie !

[@etralin3dream983]

Anyone think they could fix this audio I heard it's possible but you would require the wax disc it was recorded on

[@CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui]

This isn’t a motion picture, it was a series of pictures from all sides of his body.

[@JimPigMuseumOfSound]

If you have seen what motion picture film strips look like up close, you will see that all old films are just still photos animated thru the magic of the persistence of motion.

[@CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui]

@@JimPigMuseumOfSound yes I know that I use photographic film myself That’s not what I meant by that when I wrote the comment

[@joanadarc-mb9kt]

que figura bizarra!!!

[@SaimAli-eq1yn]

Good

[@carsonmcdowell5]

Nadar: spins Nadar a moment later: I'm so dizzy...

[@BbBbBbBbBbBbA]

This is by far the most disturbing thing I have ever seen and heard

[@moopteapop]

he spin 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳

[@Jaiven1]

This is not meme

[@ZEEROXCD-izzy]

This, for some reason is hilarious to me

[@ArmeenkermaniTOHS]

over 100 years older than Spencer Flynn!

[@magmavision2000]

SPEEN!

[@reallyandtotallycoolkid6261]

At first I thought this was the moustache guy from Elmo's world XD

[@Esprit_Shonen]

[@Lucidfilth]

No sleep for me.

[@nightsky3304]

This is scary af watching at night 😆

[@purpleku7768]

Puh Leeeeez

[@etralin3dream983]

Better frame rate then my pc

[@JL-px2uy]

Me: oh I wonder what this is Me: I don't expect this man to be farting

[@erickminto6778]

stan dad popping on south park

[@weds9994]

MAN I GOT OLD'ROLL'd

[@jkajmo]

Wow that dude is one hell of an actor.

[@Timothy-San]

That's the sound of a zipper...

[@lazurm]

Leon Scott's recording was dated at 1860, not 1857.

[@vanxl9]

this is where michael jackon got his inspiration of the spin move.

[@charlietheanteater3918]

Can we turn this into a meme?

[@timbermicka]

Top 10 anime openings

[@roecatgaming]

Pure comedy

[@fizzypebble332]

What in thy holy name

[@mecha7419]

But what kind of sound is that?

[@daphne4983]

Sounds like BIgfoot. Would be nice though to know what is being said.

[@ianstrange5674]

😨😨😨

[@sebastianknott3804]

Earliest recording sound is 1860 is it not?

[@mylesjordan9970]

Interesting that they pair it with the phonautograph. Paris seems to have stimulated more progressive enquiry than any city until Vienna’s forty years later.

[@BrentonClark00]

Is this available on iTunes? lol

[@samfeldstein4498]

Maybe it's just me but the recording makes me think of noises Woodstock makes from Peanuts