Chronophotography on celluloid film

Author	E.J. Marey
Title	"Chèvre au galop"
Technique	Chronophotography
Place	París (France)
Date	1888-1894
Register	3223

Fragment of chronophotography on celluloid film made by E.J.Marey and his team at the Parc des Princes scientific station in Paris. The limitations of fixed-plate chronophotographs prompted Marey and his team to use a new material, celluloid, as a medium for the filmed images instead of the glass plate. Starting in 1888, Marey built a new camera for taking chronophotographs with moving film, in which the modification basically consisted of a mechanism that dragged the film in front of the lens at the rate of twenty images per second. Celluloid, flexible, strong and transparent, proved to be an ideal material for filming moving images. Thus, we can consider that Marey was the first who, with a single device, recorded a photographic sequence of a body in motion on photosensitive film.

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