Edward Muybridge Edison (kinetoscope) .
Muybridge publishes his 100,000 plus photos in 'Animal Locomotion- An Electro-photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements'. There were over seven hundred plates, all folio-sized, in eleven volumes. This work is today a reference source in motion study and is considered the most exhaustive analysis ever made of the subject. When seen through the Zoopraxiscope (as early as 1879), Muybridge's photographs are without debate, the world's first motion pictures. Men, women, children and animals are seen as in true motion, resembling nothing less in quality or appearance than the earliest works of the Lumiere's in 1895. Muybridge's final accomplishment was without celluoid, yet fluid, preceeding the commercial films of the 1890's by at least 16 years. When considering the fact that there are 172,800 + frames in a typical two hour film of today, Muybridge's 20,000 pictures, if shown consecutively (impossible with the Zoopraxiscope) would provide a film of approximately 13+ minutes in length. In comparison, The Great Train Robbery of 1912 (Edwin Porter) was 12 minutes, and Chaplin's Behind the Screen of 1916, was 15 minutes.
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http://www.photo-seminars.com/Fame/muybridge.htm
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