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Photo gun early moving pictures4/26/2023 In 1885 the Prussian photographer Ottomar Anschütz commenced sequence photography, and in 1887 devised the Electro-Tachyscope, a machine for the public presentation of his picture sequences. (Later, in 1891, Marey's collaborator Georges Demeny used sequences taken on a Marey film camera to produce picture discs for viewing, and then shortly afterwards achieved motion projection, from glass discs, with his Phonoscope) (BC2). Marey's gun took twelve images, and with it he photographed sequences of birds in flight. Inspired by Muybridge's work, French scientist Etienne-Jules Marey devised, in 1882, a photographic gun - a development of an idea of the astronomer Janssen, who in 1876 had built an 'astronomical revolver' using discs to record the transit of the planet Venus across the face of the sun. In the 1880s he travelled extensively in Europe and America, and included zoopraxiscopic projection in his lectures (RH). This used large glass discs around the edge of which were painted silhouette images, traced from his sequence photographs. In 1879 he designed a projector, the zoögyroscope (later known as the Zoöpraxiscope). In the 1870s Eadweard Muybridge had taken photographic sequences of a horse galloping and other subjects, using a battery of plate cameras. The demonstration was repeated at the Franklin Institute on 16 March 1870 (MQ). This was one of the first public demonstrations of projected photographic sequences to give the appearance of motion. Heyl presented his Phasmatrope, using glass transparencies of a sequence of static poses of a couple waltzing, mounted round a disc fitted with an intermittent mechanism and shutter, and projected by a magic lantern. On 5 February 1870 at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, Henry R. Various proposals were made by experimenters in the 1850s and 60s for producing photographic sequences for viewing in phenakistiscopes and zoetropes, but due to the slow photographic emulsions of that period, movement had to be represented by sequences of photographs of posed action (BC2). A sliding shutter obscured the pictures alternately, giving a crude appearance of movement - a man taking off his hat, for example (BC2). In 1853 French photographer Claudet designed an apparatus based on the stereoscope, but with photographs of two phases of an action. Photographic motion pictures started before celluloid film was available. Today, more than a century after the introduction of the Kinetoscope and Cinematographe, new information is still being discovered. The facts listed here include findings by researchers in many parts of the world. This new web edition is in continuous revision - we welcome your additions and corrections.Įstablishing exactly who did what, and when, has always been a contentious area in the field of motion pictures. The world's first film productions, and first film shows, are the subjects of this chronology, originally published in 1994 as a booklet, by The Projection Box. Follow the links on the left-hand menu for individual features. This section contains a number of special presentations on aspects of Victorian cinema.
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