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An interview with pioneering photographer Lucien Bull.
Chronophotographic short film, possibly species Protophormia terraenovae, c. 1904-1905.
Chronophotograph record of a ball falling through a soap bubble.
No description available.
Series of 14 chronophotographic short films held by the Cinémathèque française. Includes vol de la grosse mouche bleue (flight of the big blue fly), oft-misattributed to Marey as "Mosquinha".
Lucien Bull was a pioneer in chronophotography. Chronophotography is defined as "a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of motion."
A black poodle runs up and down steps.
A horsedrawn double-decker bus sits immobile at the centre of the image, with a flurry of horse-drawn carriages and omnibuses swirling around it. Then the vehicle, loaded with passengers, finally sets off, headed either for Batignolles or Montparnasse Station, revealing in the background a swarm of chaos that is enough to make one’s head spin. Carriages, horses, pedestrians and wagons intersect in all directions.
A black poodle jumping.
50 successive phases of bursting 50 primers.
A sphere falls in water.
