With his fixed plate chronophotographic camera,
Marey could only operate on figures moving against his
black background and moving parallel to his camera. A
figure moving toward the camera, for example, would
produce only blur on the plate. Because he insisted on
the principle of a single camera making images from a
single point of view, he saw that there were really only
two ways to avoid such confusion: either the surface
that received the images had to be mobile so that the
images would be imprinted on its successive parts, (here
are two examples of that attempt |
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