Flying Gull is some of the earliest motion picture footage still on archive. Pre-dating the work done by Muybridge with humans, horses, and other animals, Etienne-Jules Marey began his studies by attempting to capture birds in flight. In 1870 he captured this footage of a gull in flight. The footage is actually closer to a modern gif than video as we know it now, compose of sequenced photographs played back at a low frame rate. I have thus presented it as such, with an attempt to modernize Marey's goal of analyzing the movement of the subject.

Flying Gull, Marey 1870. salvaged footage, procreate, photomosh

This work uses the following Photomosh presets: Lumamesh, Color Correction, Dither, Sharpen, Edges, Overlay (of same clip)