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Lucien Bull

Lucien Bull is a Irish cinema pioneer (1876-1972). He was Marey's assistant.

Extracts decriptions :

  • different insects flights study (1904-1911). We can compare different insects flappings.

Insect flight

  • projectile impacts study : slow motions show different projectile impacts. Cinema was be used to improve armament technics.

Cinema and scientific contributions :

Lucien Bull's aim was to slow down time, he invented from 1902, automatism shooting. He invented ultraspeed cinema with automatism shooting : 4 pictures/seconde in 1904, 50 000 pictures/seconde in 1928, and even one million pictures/seconde in 1951.











Lucien Bull with Marey-wheel camera

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