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Figures in motion

Australia, 1999
film

Eadweard Muybridge was the pioneer photographer whose experiments in stop-motion photography helped develop the technology that resulted in motion pictures. I..

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Figures in motion

Australia, 1999
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Eadweard Muybridge: zoopraxographer

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Splitting Time

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The Fleeting image

United Kingdom, 1974
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Edweard Muybridge Horse in Motion

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Sequential photographs

1887
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Sequential photographs Motion Studies: Horse

United Kingdom, 1887
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The Biography of the motion picture camera

France, 1947
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United Kingdom, 1887
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United Kingdom, 1887
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Marey

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Sequential photographs Motion Studies: Straight High Jump

United Kingdom, 1887
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Origin of the motion picture

United States, 1955
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The Voyeur

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Film firsts. Pt. 2

United States, 1959
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Moving still

United Kingdom, 1980
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The First motion picture show

United States, 1976
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The Revealing eye

United Kingdom, 1960
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