The website celebrates the 100th anniversary of the oldest known Japanese animated short films, and is streaming the oldest surviving Japanese animated short film, Junichi Kouchi’s “The Dull Sword”.
The films were all predated by a 50-frame shot of a sailor boy’s salute that was discovered in 2005.
The film was discovered in an Osaka antique shop in 2008, along with Seitarou Kitayama’s 1918 film “Urashima Tarō.”
The website is streaming 64 works that debuted from 1917 to 1941.