# "First animation" video?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-animation-video/347496>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 8, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-animation-video/347496 "2006-03-08T04:10:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-animation-video/347496/1 "2006-03-08T04:10:51Z")

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I just ran across [this story](http://www.payvand.com/news/04/dec/1249.html) from 2004, which says:

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> An animated piece on an earthen goblet that belongs to 5000 years ago was found in Burnt City in Sistan-Baluchistan province, southeastern Iran.

Unfortunately, the link to an animation the researchers made is broken, and the site it points to, [http://www.chn.ir/](http://www.chn.ir/), doesn’t have the file, boz.avi. Google returned only 9 hits for the file, none of which seem to help.

Can anybody steer me to a source for the animation?

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-animation-video/347496/2 "2006-03-08T04:28:21Z")

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Not exactly HDTV, but I think for the number of images in the animation, [an animated .gif](http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/9334/irananim2zq.gif) should at least give you an idea of what it’s about.

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**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-animation-video/347496/3 "2006-03-08T05:20:55Z")

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It reminds me of an early cartoon that could have been done in the early 1900s, or someone’s first Flash animation. You could call it _Gary the Goat Eats a Plant_. I have this image in my head of a bunch of ancient Iranian cartoons engraved on urns.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-animation-video/347496/4 "2006-03-08T06:01:13Z")

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It would be nice if the modern folks who “animated” it used the full “frames” from the vase instead of fudging it a bit by isolating the animal and reusing the plants and rules from one panel for each frame. So what if the leaves wiggle?

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**Author:** ![rjk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-animation-video/347496/5 "2006-03-08T15:02:05Z")

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Thanks, **Larry**! I agree the full .avi would be better, but the .gif is pretty good anyway. I’ll search some more today - it was late and I was tired, so I just left it in your capable hands.

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**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-animation-video/347496/6 "2006-03-08T16:39:30Z")

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> [@rjk](#):
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> Thanks, **Larry**! I agree the full .avi would be better, but the .gif is pretty good anyway.

Agree with what? That’s not what he said at all.