Étienne-Jules Marey
Directing
Biography
Étienne-Jules Marey was a French scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer. His work was significant in the development of cardiology, physical instrumentation, aviation, cinematography and the science of laboratory photography. He is widely considered to be a pioneer of photography and an influential pioneer of the history of cinema.
Known For
Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of French cinema from its birth to the beginning of the 1960s. With commentary read by Jean Rochefort.
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
A black poodle runs up and down steps.
Chien, Caniche Noir Descendant et Montant Un Escalier
A Black man waling at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Homme Noir, Marche, Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale au Champ-de-Mars à Paris
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Mar Aéreo: Ondas de Voo
A black poodle jumping.
Chien Caniche Noir Sautant
A group of men, identified as "Muslims of Saint-Louis," at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Démarche de Musulmans de Saint-Louis, Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale à Paris
Félix Regnault is carried on a palanquin by marching Malagasy men at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Félix Regnault assis sur un palanquin porté par des malgaches au pas
An early film by Étienne-Jules Marey, one of the first anatomical/medical recordings.
Déplacement des globules de sang dans un vaisseau capillaire
A Senegalese woman carries a child on her back at the Exposition Ethnographique de l'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Wolof Woman (Senegal) Carrying a Child on Her Back
Chronophotographic short film, possibly species Protophormia terraenovae, c. 1904-1905.
Flight of the Large Blue Fly
A bay horse trots.
Bay Horse, Mounted, Trotting
An ordinary walk.
Marche Ordinaire
A series of short motion-studies of athletes for the 1900 Olympics in Paris.
The Olympic Games of 1900
Oscar de Raoul demonstrates a bendy walk.
Marche en Flexion (Oscar de Raoul)
A film initiated by the Cinémathèque Française (France - 2007) The Cinémathèque Française digitized, restored and reanimated more than 400 fragile cellulose nitrate films of Etienne-Jules Marey’s work. These 400 incunables are presented for the first time in this film: a monument!
Etienne-Jules Marey: Chronophotographic Films 1890-1904
A Senegalese woman carries a weight on her head at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.
Femme Ouolofe (Sénégal) en marche avec poids sur sa tête
Thérèse Rentz rides a bay horse.
Bay Horse, Ridden by Thérèse Rentz, Canter
The inauguration of the Marey Institute in 1902.
Inauguration of the Marey Institute
A French squadron leader runs with bent legs.
Course en Flexion (Oscar de Raoul)
Chronophotograph record of a ball falling through a soap bubble.