"Anyone know if this series can be viewed online? The link on Birkbeck's site doesn't say one way or the other"

"Earlier than Le Prince, Etienne-Jules Marey produced ‘the earliest filmed images of movement ever seen in public’ [possibly 1881 or 1882] (Braun and Marey 1992, p 151. As a scientist he had no interest in cinema or commercial gain  by reproducing…"