Mosquinha (1890) FULL VIDEO

 

Release Date: March 4, 1890

Directed by:  Étienne-Jules Marey

Country of Origin: France

Shot of the flight of a fly.

The 1890 film Mosquinha (also known as The Fly), directed by French scientist Étienne-Jules Marey, is widely considered the first nature film in cinema history.

Its pioneering achievements include:

Earliest Nature Subject: It is credited as the first film to feature a fly (specifically a mosquito) as its primary subject, capturing it in flight.

Scientific Chronophotography: Marey used his "chronophotographic gun"—an early motion-picture device—to record the rapid movement for scientific study, achieving a level of visual clarity and motion capture that was exceptional for 1890.

Earliest Surviving Work: It is recognized as Marey's earliest surviving work that utilizes a motion-picture format rather than just a series of static photographs on a single plate. 

The film is extremely short, lasting approximately two to eight seconds, and shows a silhouette of a fly taking off and moving upwards.