Watch the oldest surviving film of a total solar eclipse
The video was captured nearly 120 years ago by British magician-turned-filmmaker Nevil Maskelyne
![solar eclipse](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/053019_lg_eclipse_feat.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
SHINE AND SHADOW This image is a still frame from the oldest known video of a total solar eclipse, taken in 1900 in North Carolina.
Royal Astronomical Society, BFI