Lucien Bull
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Producer
Lucien Bull was a pioneer of chronophotography, a process of creating motion pictures that had been innovated by Etienne-Jules Marey in the early 1890s.
Born in Dublin, Ireland, to Cornelius Bull and Gabrielle Joune, Bull, in his earlier years, lived with his mother and father. However, after moving to France to visit his aunts in 1894, (his mother was french) Bull eventually settled in the area. He soon became the assistant of Marey himself, in 1895, who was at the time working on a camera called the cinematographic, which soon became known as 'gun camera' due to its shape. The first successful motion study taken with the 'gun camera' was of a fly and was taken by Bull himself, in 1904. This same year Marey died, and Bull then became the head of the Marey Institute. His honors and distinctions include Officer of the Legion of Honor (1954) and the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1920).
Born in Dublin, Ireland, to Cornelius Bull and Gabrielle Joune, Bull, in his earlier years, lived with his mother and father. However, after moving to France to visit his aunts in 1894, (his mother was french) Bull eventually settled in the area. He soon became the assistant of Marey himself, in 1895, who was at the time working on a camera called the cinematographic, which soon became known as 'gun camera' due to its shape. The first successful motion study taken with the 'gun camera' was of a fly and was taken by Bull himself, in 1904. This same year Marey died, and Bull then became the head of the Marey Institute. His honors and distinctions include Officer of the Legion of Honor (1954) and the Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1920).
