A photographic technique using rapid sequential images to record and analyze movement or change over time.
From Greek chronos (time), photo (light), and graph (write/record). Invented in the late 1800s by Étienne-Jules Marey, who used this method to study animal and human motion.
Chronophotography is basically the grandfather of modern video and animation—Marey's sequential photos of birds flying and horses running revealed secrets about motion that artists and scientists had been guessing about for centuries!
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