What if: The first audiovisual identity ever! (1865) [COULD'VE HAPPENED; READ DESC]

Описание: Finally another one of those "What if?" videos of mine produced and putting it into said sporadic series' playlist:    • What if?   ─ rly like making those hypothetical scenarios now and then XD. It took me a mere 60-90 minutes to make the entire thing from cover to cover ngl LEL (already had the idea in my head for a couple of days before that).

Anyway here's a hypothetical scenario about what could've been the very first audiovisual identity in recorded history, from 1865. First off: back in that specific year, photographer Félix Nadar got the random bright idea to shoot twelve pictures in rapid succession (using a chiefly photography-related invention from back then patented by François Willème) of him revolving/spinning around in a chair, in what's commonly agreed elsewhere as a pioneering, rather revolutionary attempt at a "motion picture", despite the technology allowing frames to be pristinely played as a video NOT existing in the mid-19th century (it's still widely accepted that either "Roundhay Garden Scene" (1888), "The Horse in Motion"/"Sallie Gardner at a Gallop" (1878) or "Passage De Vénus" (1874) was the earliest proper film ever, with the adequate film showcasing technology already existing by the 1870s). Here is how the finished card for the 12 pictures looked like, in real life (NOT this scenario from this very video, duh): https://blogger.googleusercontent.com...

Well, I also got the random bright idea to think of how the finished card could've been manipulated back then to result in what would've been the very first audiovisual identity in recorded history again. Inspired by the ACTUAL earliest logo currently documented, from 1896/1897 ─ https://tinyurl.com/5y4bbacn ─ I digitally scribbled a lazy copyright notice in white on the card's last taken picture in the style of the aforementioned actual earliest logo (Thomas A. Edison Inc.), then downloaded an online video showcasing the 12 pictures played as a video, and made a somewhat crude (IMHO) edit of replacing the genuine last taken picture with the modified one featuring the hypothetical handwritten copyright notice. I later show the whole card in its modified form by yours truly at the end of the video, as well as pretty much a textbook Reddit r/uselessredcircle moment just for the sake of it ig.

The fact that THIS HAD A CHANCE TO HAPPEN IRL /gen. It sadly hasn't happened, but if Félix Nadar had half a mind to write a copyright notice on the last picture (or any of the pictures) back then, despite his creation being disputed by many reputable sources regarding its official proper motion picture status, the logo community might have had its oldest recorded audiovisual identity around three decades earlier than what's currently documented as the oldest. This could've seriously actually happened in real life if there was any visible copyright or handwriting denoting ownership on the original 1865 cards, but it hasn't. AND NO I DON'T MEAN IT LIKE THIS, OUTSIDE THE FRAMES ─ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Th... ─ I DON'T THINK THAT QUALIFIES AS A REAL LOGO IN OUR COMMUNITY IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN I MEAN IF IT WERE TO BE WRITTEN SOMEWHERE INSIDE THEM /SRS (cough) yeah anyways. Enjoy my "What if?" video!!! 😃🎞️📸









✨✨✨ And finally, as a bonus, here is a modern AVID-styled description of said hypothetical scenario, if it were for this logo to actually exist: ✨✨✨

"Logo (1865)

Visuals: On the last frame of Félix Nadar's "Revolving" self-portrait, the following text is seen in a white rushed handwritten style:

Copyright
1865
Felix
Nadar

Trivia: This is the earliest logo on this wiki currently.

Technique: Handwritten text.

Audio: None.

Legacy: This logo holds multiple titles: the first English-language foreign logo, the oldest standalone logo, and currently, the oldest known logo on this wiki with a verified year."