[Muybridge Motion Picture Experiments]

Muybridge -style footage of running horse.

Introduction to the Cinerama process by Lowell Thomas. Shots include visual representation of morse code as circular patterns. Thomas speaks about the Cinerama process. Thomas explains various art and how motion was trying to be captured in painting and other works of art. Lowell shows the ""Magic Lantern"" and slides created by Kirhcer in the 17th century. Lowell shows off ""Deguerreotype"" images. Lowell talks about Peter Mark Roget and shows a spinning card demostrating the idea of motion in images by spinning the two sided card. The Zoetrope is explained and demonstrated. Mathew Brady photos shown of the Civil War. Leland Stanford and Muybridge photos of horse galloping. Photos of Thomas Edison and George Eastman, Lowell talks about Kodak film and Edison. First motion picture studio photo ""The Black Mariah"". Scene from Edison's film with May Irwin and John Rice. Photo of the ""Penny Arcade"". Scene of a woman undressing, 5th Avenue, the Easter Parade. Shots of New York City, Horse drawn fire engine, early newsreel, Spanish American War soldiers marching in New York City. First feature film in a Nickelodean. Selections from ""The Great Train Robbery"" . Valentino and Vilma Banky scene from an early film including shots of sword fighting. Lowell explains the Cinerama films.

b&w documentary on the development of the motion picture camera - photograph of Eadweard Muybridge, model of setup used for 24 camera in classic horse movement photos by Muybridge, the Muybridge horse photos, drawings of E. J. Marey's other attempts to photograph movement, w/s house pan left to workshop, re-enactment of Marey's camera the Chronophotograph shooting horse and rider, c/u camera lens, c/u hand turning crank, c/u camera's moving shutter, horse and rider move past backdrop, c/u photograph, photograph showing joint movement of walking man Hollywood history

REENACTMENT OF DOCTOR, SCIENTIST STUDYING MOTION, WEARING WHITE LAB COAT, WITH HORSE AND RIDER. EXPERIMENT. RIDER HOLDS DEVICE, AN ADAPTATION OF THE PULSE-TAKING INVENTION. FOUR NEEDLES ON A DRUM CREATING GRAPHS OF HORSE'S MOVEMENT. MOVING PARTS OF GIZMO. WIRES CONNECTED TO DEVICE AND HORSE'S LEGS. CLOSES UP HORSE'S HOOF WITH PAD ON IT USED TO RECORD MOVEMENT. RIDER, JOCKEY RIDING HORSE TO RECORD ITS GAIT. EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE.

ORIGIN OF THE MOTION PICTURE

Classic Television Commercials (Group 1)