Catalogue description Photographs registered at Stationers Hall on behalf of Eadweard Muybridge. Motion...

Photographs registered at Stationers Hall on behalf of Eadweard Muybridge. Motion pictures: 1-100

Registration forms, and accompanying photographic sheets for human and animal motion studies 1 to 100 produced by Eadward Muybridge. These sheets were maintained by the Clerks at Stationers Hall in separate bundles and not as part of the established sequence of photograph registrations.

The motion study sheets are described under items 5 to 104. (See below for information concerning items 1 to 4.)

For each of the photographs described in this sequence the copyright owner and author is noted as Eadweard Muybridge, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, present place of abode University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States of America. The registration forms were signed on behalf of Muybridge by his attorney, John James Atkinson, 25 April 1887. The forms were registered at Stationers Hall on 20 May 1887.

Muybridge preferred the term 'Plate' to describe a sheet of photograph images. This term has been kept only when used in the original description.

Researchers should also note that the majority of the studies of human motion were undertaken to show anatomical movement, so the subject will be shown without clothing. Where that is not the case the subject will be referred to as 'dressed'.

Item Nos 1 to 4 were registered by the clerks at Stationers Hall at the same time. However, as these photographs were not produced by Muybridge, they are not included in these bundles. They may be seen in document reference COPY 1/380.

The photographs and copyright registration forms within the document have been numbered from No 1 onwards, with photographs annotated 'A' and registration forms annotated 'B'. Therefore, the first catalogued item in this piece (item 5) is item 1A and 1B in the document etc.

Register of photographs: COPY 3/166

Photographs 1 to 4: COPY 1/380