RE: Maillardet's Automaton (the "Draughtsman-Writer")

[Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com>]

Steven Janoff wrote:

> Méliès is awesome, a real pioneer.  Didn't he do those movies with the running man and the horse in motion?  Amazing stuff.

I think you're confusing Méliès with the English film pioneer Eadweard Muybridge. 
Muybridge was preoccupied with the analysis of locomotion, while Méliès was a showman who loved illusion and trickery and generally fabulous films.

-Fred Ridder

 
 		 	   		  
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