Upon entering the Museum of Moving Image in Astoria, Queens, I was unaware of what I would find. I had this image in my head of possible wall art that demonstrated moving image and it’s progression through time. However as I walked through the Museum, I began to realize that what I was going to see was physical, tangible items, historical pieces of media and the impact of media in society.
The aspect of media production that stuck with me was the short film about Étienne-Jules Marey. Marey created methods of utilizing the nature of motion and this eventually led to cinematography. Marey observed animals, athletes, people and many other objects in motion and his research played a huge impact on the birth of cinematorgraphy.
The reason that I feel Marey is an important aspect in the progression of moving images is because his experiements, and observations within the sciene of motion was a breakthrough for future moving image moguls. (ex: Thomas Edison and the Lumiere Btohers). Marey used his carrer in the nature of movement as a way for him to branch out into actually capturing animate objects in motion. This innovating breakthrough in the moving image is a huge influence on understanding the aspect of motion caught on camera and film.
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