19th century ‘magic’ meets 21st technology as Victorian-era solar eclipse VIDEO restored to 4k - RT

19th century ‘magic’ meets 21st technology as Victorian-era solar eclipse VIDEO restored to 4k  RTThe British Film Institute (BFI) has released remarkable footage of a solar eclipse shot during the Victorian era but painstakingly restored to stunning 4k, in what may be the world’s oldest surviving astronomical film. The incredible footage was shot in North Carolina in 1900 by Nevil Maskelyne, a British magician-turned-filmmaker, who was taking part in a Royal Astronom