![]() The visual transition is itself an object lesson in the power of sequential images. On screen we watch timelapse experiments with floral blooms and crystal growth set to whimsical flute music before the film smoothly cuts to instruments of human annihilation. His famous sequential studies of animal movement innovated photography as a tool for motion analysis - the field that excites these ordnance laboratorians most. The future’s bombs, this training film claims, will be detonated atop the shoulders of yesterday’s “photographer extraordinary”, Eadweard Muybridge. ![]() Naval Ordnance Laboratory in 1964, It Started with Muybridge begins with a voiceover proclaiming the center’s mission: “research and development for tomorrow’s weapons”. ![]()
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