Directed by Étienne-Jules Marey "L'homme machine" is animated stick drawings representing a man walking. Earlier animations had been done with zoetropes and then praxinoscopes so Marey wasn't alone in this. You need only see. "Zimm. Boum. Boum!" "Le singe musicien," or "La Rosace Magique" to name a few early animations.
A fun fact I read regarding Marey though is that he was able to actually film at 60 fps way back in the 19th century. I wonder how true that is considering early films were a grainy, crude 12 fps. "L'homme machine" was NOT filmed at 60 fps. But I'd like to see what he did film at that rate if he did at all.
Watched on YouTube.
