They were the first pictures of motion picture photography published in a printed form. I believe they were one color black and white in a series of strips of single frames showing the animation as the frames were shown in there sequence as they were captured.
2007-04-26 04:37:11 · 3 answers · asked by michael_intrator 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
He took the first photos in 1878 using many cameras with very fast (for that time) shutters in a raw. The first time he photographed a horse running (he was trying to find out if at some moment it had all four feet on the air without touching ground). If I remeber well, he had the horse to run on a straight path, he put the cameras on one side facing the path and put very thin threads or wires from each camera across the path. As the horse run it cut the threads and activated the cameras.
The book Animal Locomotion with similar photos of many animals was published in 1887. Then he made another book with humans that was published, I think, in 1888.
2007-04-26 09:52:22 · answer #1 · answered by dimitris k 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You want his "Flying Horse," which is considered the first sequential art, or moving picture. He had a bet going with someone that there was some point in a horse's gallop where the horse had no feet on the ground. He rigged up a series of cameras to catch the horse at varried moments in it's gallop. He won the bet, and inadvertantly created the predecessor to "moving pictures"
This was 1870 ish i believe
2007-04-26 06:48:09 · answer #2 · answered by moebiustrip 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe there were a series of cameras all set to go off one right after the other... and it dates to the mid to late 1800s I think. Go to www.wikipedia.org for the details. Put in his name...
2007-04-26 04:47:43 · answer #3 · answered by aspicco 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋