Étienne-Jules Marey Movies

Experimental film of a wave, recorded on the bay of Naples.

Chronophotograph record of a ball falling through a soap bubble.

Directed by Étienne-Jules Marey, a French scientist, this is believed to be the first cat ever filmed in cinematic history. Jules Marey...

Animated stick drawings representing a man walking.

Chronophotographic short film, possibly species Protophormia terraenovae, c. 1904-1905.

Short film of two men fencers

Georges Demenÿ saying “Je vous aime”

A series of short motion-studies of athletes for the 1900 Olympics in Paris.

Rabbits jump, play and interact with each other in multiple different sequences.

Early film of men rowing on two boats.

A group of men, identified as "Muslims of Saint-Louis," at the Exposition Ethnographique de L'Afrique Occidentale in Paris.

An early short film recording fencers.

Footage of blood pumping through the body

A cat trotting.

One of the first movies ever made.

A film by Étienne-Jules Marey of a weight lifter, around 1890

A horse's legs cantering.

A person walks up an incline.

A naked man running.

A film by Étienne-Jules Marey of a somersault, around 1890