LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Figure 1.1. Braune and Fischer’s military recruit in the experimental suit
Figure 1.2. The subject at rest with the grid superimposed
Figure 1.3. Braune and Fischer’s camera placement
Figure 1.4. The resulting chronophotograph
Figure 1.5. Determination of the coordinates of a point P from the projections of P on two planes as seen from the two cameras
Figure 1.6. Side and top views of the instrument used to measure coordinates
Figure 1.7. Measurement of a coordinate
Figure 1.8. A table of the coordinates derived from experiment 1
Figure 1.9. The graph of the coordinates (view from the right side)
Figure 1.10. The graph of the coordinates (view from above of different body parts)
Figure 1.11. Left and back views of the tridimensional model representing the attitudes of the human body during walking
Figure 1.12. Seddig’s cinematic apparatus for measuring Brownian motion
Figure 1.13. Seddig’s photographic rendering of Brownian motion
Figure 1.14. The irregular paths of Brownian motion
Figure 1.15. Hermann Braus
Figure 1.16. Ross Granville Harrison
Figure 1.17. Harrison’s sketches of the elongation of frog nerve fibers grown in culture
Figure 2.1. Frames from Ludwig Braun’s film of a dog’s beating heart
Figure 2.2. Groedel’s serial cassette X-ray apparatus
Figure 2.3. Max Nordau
Figure 2.4. A hypnotist practicing his craft, France, circa 1900
Figure 3.1. A typical storefront movie theater (Ladenkino) from the pre–World War I era
Figure 3.2. The Wanderings of Odysseus, touted to be a “Reformfilm”
Figure 3.3. “The Cultural Work of the Film Theater: Thoughts from the Year 1784 by Friedrich von Schiller”
Figure 3.4. The geometry of taste
Figure 3.5. Children at Luisen-Kino in Berlin, circa 1910
Figure 3.6. A page from Lemke’s Die kinematographische Unterrichtsstunde (The Cinematic Lesson Plan, 1911)
Figure 3.7. Hermann Häfker
Figure 4.1. Aesthetic experience as a series of interlocking dichotomies
Figure 4.2. A prewar audience enjoying a night at the Union-Theater in Berlin, 1913
Figure 4.3. Kammer-Lichtspiele Theater in Berlin, 1912