Viewing the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse on a flight is one thing, the footage you’re about to see was shot on May 28, 1900 by a famous magician, Nevil Maskelyne, on an expedition to North Carolina. What makes this even more special is that Maskelyne successfully traveled to India in 1898 to photograph an eclipse, but the film can was stolen on his return journey home.
Filming this solar eclipse wasn’t just setting up a camera and leaving it alone, as Maskelyne first had to make a special telescopic adapter for his camera before filming could commence. Plus, this is the only film by Maskelyne that the British Film Institute knows to have survived.
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The original film fragment held in The Royal Astronomical Society’s archive has been painstakingly scanned and restored in 4K by conservation experts at the BFI National Archive, who have reassembled and re-timed the film frame by frame,” said BFI.
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