Pioneering Eadweard Muybridge motion picture from 1884. AI colorized and upscaled to 4K 60fps Created at the University of Pennsylvania. Before the movie camera. 10 years before the "Roundhay Garden Scene" (1888) and 12 years before the Lumiere brothers "Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1886) Muybridge was creating the first motion pictures. Using up to 24 still cameras. he first captured time in motion over 140 years ago in a groundbreaking project "Animal Locomotion." His project began with "Horse in Motion" in 1878 and was finally completed at the University of Pennsylvania between 1884 and 1885. "Man and Woman dancing a Waltz ( Plate 197) is my first favorite. The woman is Blanche Eplar. The man's name is unknown though he may have been one of Muybridge's staff drafted in for the session. It was most likely made in 1884. EadWeard Muybridge Timeline In 1878 Muybridge published a chronophotographic sequence called "The Horse in Motion." In 2012 Google created a Google doodle to commemorate the 182nd anniversary of Muybridge's birthday. In 1880, the earliest known motion picture exhibition was held by Muybridge at the California School of Fine Arts. The audience saw painted silhouettes of the motion pictures rather than the real photographs we see today. Viewed on a disc through a Zoopraxiscope - Muybridges invention. A precursor of the movie projector. 1884 - The First Motion Pictures Studio In 1883, the University of Pennsylvania, with remarkable foresight, offered Muybridge funds which helped him build a proper outdoor studio on their premises.This was the first motion picture studio.The funds allowed Muybridge to get extra cameras, staff and human models. Many of the participants were students attending the University. The animals came from the local zoo which was right next door to the university. In 1884 Muybridge commenced his historic photo sessions. The groundbreaking collection of 781 plates was finally published in 1887 under the title - "Animal Locomotion: an Electro-Photographic Investigation of Connective Phases of Animal Movements." The First Motion Pictures In 1889, Muybridge took his study on a global lecture tour, projecting his motion pictures with his Zoopraxiscope to enthralled audiences. Copies of the original plates were sold in sets of 100 for €100. The reviews were ecstatic. "The Nation" in New York said "Here, for the first time, human eyes may see just how the human body moves. Graceful enough to delight the soul of Raphael. One is filled with wonder at the power of the eye or brain that saw movement that has waited till now for proof of their verity." The History of Film However poor Muybridge's star was to be very quickly eclipsed by others, Etienne-Jules Marey, a colleague from France, advanced on Muybridge's technique which he had named "chronophotography" to using a single camera. An antecedent to the capture system of light and the movement which future cinematographers would have. Louis le Prince, William Friese-Greene, Georges Demenÿ and Birt Acres all made advances in movie camera design. Eastman-Kodak celluloid 35mm film (1889) would finally become the standard capture medium. In 1894 - Thomas Edison's Kinetograph ( designed by W. K. L. Dickson) captured a sneeze. On March 22nd 1895 the Lumiere Brothers premiered 10 films made with their Cinematograph. A machine inspired by all the preceding inventions. They both filmed and projected much longer films which stunned Belle Epoch Paris. Alice Guy Blache and her employer Leon Gaumont were at that "surprise" event and Blache persuaded Gaumont to procure a camera. In 1886 she made The Fairy of the Cabbages, the first of a long career in films. Muybridge's techniques are used now in modern movie making. Known as Time Slice Photography and seen first in The Matrix (1999). A Man and Woman Dancing a Waltz (Plate 197 1884) Animals in Locomotion © 1887 Volume 7 Males & Females ( Draped) Technique: Chronophotography, burst mode Artist/Photograph: Eadweard Muybridge Editor: Eadweard Muybridge Publisher: Chapman & Hall, LD (London) Pictures taken between 1884 and 1886. AI Remaster by Glamourdaze.com The original 24 single photo frames were assembled into a two second motion picture running at 10 fps. Colorized using Deoldify by Jason Antic Using Rife, the film frames were increased to 80 fps The result was then upscaled to 4K resolution Music: Reflective Piano Waltz by Marco Zannone. Licensed to Glamourdaze by Pond5 Music. Muybridge died on 8 May 1904 in Kingston upon Thames of prostate cancer. His remains were interred in a grave at Woking in Surrey. On the grave's headstone his name is misspelled as "Eadweard Maybridge". #shorts #shortsvideo