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World's Oldest Animation

Now this is deeply cool. The Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO) in Iran has made a short film using the images on a bowl from the Burnt City. The Burnt City (Shar-i Sokhta) is a site in Iran that dates to about 2600 BC, and has seen some decades of investigation. The bowl shows five images of a wild goat leaping, and if you put them in a sequence (like a flip book), the wild goat leaps to nip leaves off a tree.

The CAIS website has an image of this cool little character, well worth a peek.

CHTHO's Cultural Blunder and Documentary Production on World’s Oldest Animation

Wednesday March 5, 2008 | comments (2)

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