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Photograph of what is possibly Samuel Morse from 1839. If true, would be the oldest known photograph of someone famous (who was not primarily a photographer).
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/3/3/AAA4VzAAEtYB.jpg

Footage of British television recorded in the United States from 1938. Weird atmospheric patterns allowed for US TVs to pick up the signal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kk0ytK_nqA

The first digital photograph ever from 1957.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/3/4/AAA4VzAAEtYC.jpg

Someone playing a guitar from 1853 or 1854. The earliest known audio recording ever. Note that this never actually was intended to be played back. It was recorded into lines using a phonautograph. In 2008 someone used a computer to read the lines and turn it back into sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIowwRj0lM0

First footage from an object in the upper atmosphere. From V2 rocket in 1946.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sykfqa3MKAg

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/1/2/AAUFZqAAEtlw.jpg

The first two people ever captured in a photograph. The camera had an exposure time of five minutes, so the only people who appear are a man getting his shoes shined, and the person shining them, since they were stationary for the full exposure time.

YellowSUV posted...

Someone playing a guitar from 1853 or 1854. The earliest known audio recording ever. Note that this never actually was intended to be played back. It was recorded into lines using a phonautograph. In 2008 someone used a computer to read the lines and turn it back into sound.

You can't fool me, that's just sound effects from Space Invaders!

The world's oldest known cat photo. I guess the cat really didn't want to sit still for it.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/1/7/4/AAA4VzAAEtzO.jpg

The earliest surviving jazz recording. Livery Stable Blues (1917) by the Original Dixieland Jass Band. The part at 1:17 is supposed to be the instruments imitating a barn door opening followed by the animals getting out. Kind of hard to tell though due to the overall bad recording quality of music before electronic microphones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WojNaU4-kI