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Want to see a Jesus movie produced in the 19th century? My friend Matt Page<\/a> has discovered that just such a film \u2014 or at least a ten-minute collection of footage from such a film \u2014 is available for download at the Library of Congress website.<\/p>\n

The film in question is called La vie et la passion de J\u00e9sus-Christ<\/i>, and it was produced in 1898 by Georges Hatot and the Lumi\u00e8re brothers. As Matt notes at his blog, this was not quite the first Bible movie ever made<\/i>, but the earlier ones \u2014 all of which were produced in 1897 or 1898 \u2014 are all presumed lost at this point.<\/p>\n

The film itself is a fairly straightforward collection of vignettes, shot in a typical early-silent-movie style that puts a lot of the action at the bottom of the screen (alas, the video seems to have been cropped too tightly, which often<\/a> happens to<\/a> older films<\/a>), but it does include at least one unusual detail that may be unique to this film: at the four-minute mark, Jesus seems to teleport into the Last Supper scene.<\/p>\n

You can watch the film below or download it from the Library of Congress website<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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