This is really sad and pissy of me but this isn't video, it's film. We are watching a video copy of film but this isn't video. All moving pictures aren't video. All moving pictures are moving images. Some moving images are film, others are video. Some are Pixelvision but hat's a story for another time.

I make this distinction because there was ancient mechanical video dating back to the 1910's and I became excited thinking that this might have been an even earlier version of mechanical video. Alas, film.

Still way cool.

Edit: This footage was shot at 16 or 18fps. When projected at 18 fps (or so) it looks far less comedic and "quaint". If you wonder how natural 18fps looks, Super 8 film (and older 8mm for that matter) is typically shot at 18 fps and looks just fine. When sound was introduced, it was discovered that the primitive optical striping of the time needed 24fps to carry audio that had enough quality to carry speech and music. Since that time, refinements allowed even film at 18 and 16fps play back high(ish) quality audio.