A photographic and scientific technique that uses a series of rapid images to record, document, and analyze motion or changes occurring over time.
From Greek chronos (time), photo (light), and -graphy (writing/recording). Pioneered by Étienne-Jules Marey in the 1880s as a tool to study movement in biology and physics.
Chronophotography directly inspired both cinema and modern animation—it proved you could dissect motion into frozen moments and then stitch them back together to reveal the beautiful mechanics of living things!
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