Chronophotographic Camera

Chronophotographic camera designed and used by Étienne Jules Marey in 1890 for the analysis of motion on a moving film.

Etienne Jules Marey was a professor of physiology at the College de France in Paris. As part of his work, he invented a 'graphic method' of recording human and animal movement for which he developed various electrical and mechanical devices. His centre, the Station Physiologique opened in 1882, where he continued this work, making increasing use of chronophotography and constructed several 'photographic guns' or fixed plate cameras to assist with his research. During his career, Marey amassed thousand of glass plates and nearly 800 short chronophotographic films, many of which were reproduced in his work 'Le Mouvement' in 1894.