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Chronophotography and the inorganic (2)
With his fixed plate chronophotographic camera, Marey could only operate on figures moving against his black background and moving parallel to his camera. A figure moving toward the camera, for example, would produce only blur on the plate. Because he insisted on the principle of a single camera making images from a single point of view, he saw that there were really only two ways to avoid such confusion: either the surface that received the images had to be mobile so that the images would be imprinted on its successive parts, (here are two examples of that attempt
or the image of the object had to be transposed so that it was imprinted on different parts of the surface – which he did by means of an oscillating mirror camera.