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MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY
audience, and therefore could not consider the project at that time.
Muybridge published a book, "Animals in Motion/' which is now used by artists in their studios, so that they may correctly delineate their subjects. It has proven a mine of information to those who produce animated cartoons and diagrams.
In 1893, at the Chicago World's Fair, Muybridge exhibited more than twenty thousand original photographs in his machine for showing them. In recognition of this the commission of the Exposition awarded him a certificate of honor. This marked the practical completion of Muybridge's work, as he was then an old man. He devoted more than twenty years of his riper maturity to the advancement of pictured motion. It is true that compared with the motion picture of today, his results were crude but they were pictures in motion nevertheless and he is honored and respected as the father of Motion Pictures.
Inspired by the work of Muybridge, many other investigators sought to produce the simulation of life upon the screen. D«r. E. J. Marey of Paris, was the most prominent of these. In 1890, he first used the celluloid roll film, which had just been given to the world through the efforts of the Rev. Hannibal Goodwin and George Eastman. Even before this, others had made partially successful attempts at using a flexible support for producing successive pictures from a single viewpoint. As presented by Muybridge with his twenty-four cameras, the result achieved was the same as the modern device of moving a motion camera in an automobile or on a moving truck, traveling at the same speed as the object photographed — in other words, the object on the screen remained stationary, while the background moved past like a panorama.
Dr. Marey decided that the pictures must be taken from one point of view and applied himself to perfecting a camera which would take photographs in rapid succession from the same viewpoint. In this he was successful, but, on account of the limitations imposed by the weight of glass plates, was unable to take more than relatively small number of pictures at one time. Not only did the employment of glass slides require very elaborate mechanism, but the quantity of glass necessary prohibited the showing of more than a few short phases of action.
In 1876, Wordsworth Donisthorpe patented a mechanism for making photographs on a deck of glass plates, like a deck <