Chronography

In the beginning of the world of animation and film, photography was everything. When looking at Marey's photos, we can see the beginnings of movement. Marey created a device called the photographic gun, allowing him to point at a subject and take 12 photos a second. When the photos were developed, each frame would be put side by side, showing how the subject was moving across the background. By showing each of these pictures side by side, it conveyed to the viewer that the object was in motion. Through the discovery of the photographic gun, people learned more and more about how motion was shown through pictures. Without the invention of the photographic gun, we would know less about how motion can be shown on a 2D plane.