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Motion analysis

Summary: {{Template}} '''Motion analysis''' is a topic in [[computer vision]], [[image processing]], and [[machine vision]] that studies methods and applications in which two or more consecutive images...

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Thaumatrope

Summary: {{Template}} A '''thaumatrope''' is a toy that was popular in [[Victorian era|Victorian times]]. A disk or card with a picture on each side is attached to two pieces of string. When the...

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Electrotachyscope

Summary: {{Template}} The '''électrotachyscope''' is an 1887 invention of [[Ottomar Anschütz]] of [[Germany]] which presents the [[illusion]] of [[motion (physics)|motion]] with transparent serial...

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Kinematoscope

Summary: {{Template}} '''The Kinematoscope''' (a.k.a. '''Motoscope''') was patented in 1861 (United States [[Patent]] 31357), a protean development in the [[history of cinema]]. The invention aimed to...

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L'Idéal Cinéma – Jacques Tati

Summary: {{Template}} The '''L'Idéal Cinéma - Jacques Tati''' is a [[movie theater]] that opened on January 26, 1902 in [[Aniche]], [[France]]. The first cinematographic performance took place on...

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Zograscope

Summary: {{Template}} A '''zograscope''' is an optical device for enhancing the sense of [[depth perception]] from a flat picture. It consists of a large [[magnifying lens]] through which the picture...

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Les Baigneuses (Gleizes)

Summary: {{Template}} '''''Les Baigneuses''''' (also known as '''''The Bathers'''''), is an large oil painting created in 1912 by the French artist, theorist and writer '''[[Albert Gleizes]]'''...

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L'Oiseau bleu (Metzinger)

Summary: {{Template}} '''''L'Oiseau bleu''''' (also known as '''''The Blue Bird''''') is a large oil painting created in 1912–1913 by the French artist and theorist '''[[Jean Metzinger]]'''...

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Proto-Cubism

Summary: {{Template}} '''Proto-Cubism''' (also referred to as '''Protocubism''', '''Pre-Cubism''' or '''Early Cubism''') is an intermediary transition phase in the history of art chronologically...

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Picture dictionary

Summary: {{Template}} A '''picture dictionary''' or '''pictorial dictionary''' is a [[dictionary]] where the definition of a word is displayed in the form of a drawing or photograph. Picture...

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Mother spanking a child

Summary: {{Template}} [[Spanking a Child]][http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_md84ycUQFY1qggdq1.jpg][http://jahsonic.tumblr.com/post/584834453/rousseaus-mental-health-is-an-instance-of] by [[Muybridge]]....

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List of visual anthropology films

Summary: {{Template}} : This is a '''chronologic list''' of representative anthropologically-minded films and filmmakers: *'''[[Alfred C. Haddon]] ''' – UK **Torres Strait Expedition, 1898 *'''[[Edward...

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Visual sociology

Summary: {{Template}} '''Visual sociology''' is an area of [[sociology]] concerned with the visual dimensions of social life. ==See also== *[[Visual anthropology]] *[[Visual communication]] *[[Visual...

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John Collier (anthropologist)

Summary: {{Template}} '''John Collier, Jr.''' (1913–1992) was an American anthropologist and an early leader in the fields of [[Visual anthropology]] and [[Applied anthropology]]. His emphasis on...

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Animal Locomotion

Summary: {{Template}} ''[[Animal Locomotion]]'' by [[Muybridge]] ==See also== *Eadweard Muybridge. ''Muybridge's Complete Human and Animal Locomotion: All 781 Plates from the 1887 Animal Locomotion'',...

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Marta Braun

Summary: {{Template}} [[Marta Braun]] is an historian of art, film and photography. {{GFDL}}

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Picturing Time: The Work of Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904)

Summary: {{Template}} ''[[Picturing Time: The Work of Étienne-Jules Marey (1830–1904)]]'' (1992) by [[Marta Braun]] . From the publisher: :[[Etienne-Jules Marey]] was an inventor whose methods of...

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Horse gait

Summary: {{Template}} '''Horse gaits''' are the various ways in which a [[horse]] can move, either naturally or as a result of specialized [[horse training|training]] by humans. {{GFDL}}

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Hoof

Summary: {{Template}} A '''hoof''' ({{IPAc-en|icon|ˈ|h|uː|f}} or {{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|ʊ|f}}), plural ''hooves'' ({{IPAc-en|icon|ˈ|h|uː|v|z}} or {{IPAc-en|ˈ|h|ʊ|v|z}}) or ''hoofs''...

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Sphygmograph

Summary: {{Template}} The '''sphygmograph''' ({{IPAc-en|icon|ˈ|s|f|ɪ|ɡ|m|ɵ|ɡ|r|ɑː|f}} or {{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|f|ɪ|ɡ|m|ɵ|ɡ|r|æ|f}} {{respell|SFIG|mə-graf}}) was a mechanical device used to measure [[blood...

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