Katsudou Shashin

This could very well be the first anime. Some say it might be from 1907! So i'm going to be lenient, super lenient.

story - 0
There is none, it's just a 5 second long clip of a boy writing.

art - 8
very good! At least, I like it. It's also very interesting, showing the style of the time

sound - 0
its a silent film so...
...
character - 1
there's a dude, he writes, bam done

enjoyment - 7
I love older stuff and history so this was super cool and interesting. Also, it was cute.

overall - 7
ya gotta forgive it, its from 1907! Overall, its the first and its good.

Story: 1/10
..'cause there's no story..

Art: 5/10
..it's very very old but still doesn't even look like one of the best art of its time..

Sound: 1/10
..I can't put 0, so let's settle for 1. Would be 2 if there were subs (dubs would be fine too!)

Character: 1/10
... ..amazing, give me any character that develops in 2-3 seconds.

Enjoyment: 7/10
..I really enjoyed watching the supposedly first anime ever created, it's like anime history is lifting her skirt a very tiny bit herself revealing a birthmark on one of her thighs for you to see for yourself.

Overall: 5/10
My formula -> (1+5+1+1+7+([8]*4))/9
Inside [] is my bias, it's the score I think it deserves.
This formula is designed so that my bias weighs much of the overall rating.

TL;DR
I liked it, feeling like I'm witnessing the birth of anime itself. No exaggerations.

P.S. It's my very first review so for anything I may have messed up, sorrymasen.

The oldest known anime to have originated from Japan.

Made in the year 1907, that is the estimate. The creator? Unknown.

Found among old films and projectors acquired from an old Kyoto family in 2004 is a short filmstrip animation titled Katsudou Shashin also known as "Matsumoto fragment" is a short anime of two to three seconds of a school boy writing the words "活動写真" on a blackboard which translates roughly to "Moving Pictures", he then proceeds to take his red hat off and bows. And that's it.

I can give you the technical aspects of it, but I don't really care. There's nothing special about it. ... You can read up on it on Wikip*dia if you want. I want to express my feelings on this work and what I though about it.

I'm awed by it. By the history of it. This marked a great moment in Japan's history of animation.

Anime has become so much more with the imoutos and the power levels. I wonder if the cartoonist for this even imagined of a future where storytelling would be done frequently in this format to this extent with sakugas and whatnot. What a time to be alive.

This is where it all began. A pure and simple flipbook level anime of a boy writing the words moving pictures.

Check it out.

..or not. I'm not your mother. But I insist.