Part 6 (1/2)
”The ZOOPRAXISCOPE is the latest, most unique, and instructive form of amus.e.m.e.nt possible.”--_Commercial Gazette_, Cincinnati.
”His work at once attracted the attention of the world.”--_Scientific American_, New York.
”Of much interest and value, as well as a source of great amus.e.m.e.nt.”--_Observer, London._
”The realism of the motions of the various animals was intense, and the audience was very enthusiastic.”--_Boston Post._
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”The Lecturer proceeded to show enlarged photographs of various animals in motion, as the horse, dog, lion, mule, cat, etc.... These were followed by some very striking pictures of the flight of birds, which from a scientific standpoint were by far the most interesting and valuable of the photographs shown during the evening.”--_Lancet_, London.
”Of extreme interest, not only to the artists and scientists, but to the greater part of his audience, who were neither the one or the other.”--_Birmingham Daily Gazette._
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”A host of well-known scientists and artists are greatly interested in this remarkable work.”--_Pall Mall Gazette._
”The lecture on Tuesday night more than fulfilled the expectations which the audience had formed of Mr. Muybridge's researches.”--_Belfast News Letter._
”Mr. Muybridge might well be proud of the reception accorded him by his distinguished audience; it would have been difficult to add to the _eclat_ of his appearance, and his lecture was welcomed by a warmth as hearty as it was spontaneous.”--_The Photographic News, London._
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”The ill.u.s.trations are truly wonderful, and the rapid changing positions were most instructive.”--_Nottingham Express._
”The concert room was crowded.... A vote of thanks to the Lecturer was proposed by his Grace the Archbishop.”--_Yorks.h.i.+re Chronicle._
”A very brilliant audience was a.s.sembled at the Royal Inst.i.tution.... The photographs properly studied should be most valuable in affording truer and more exact data for the painter to base his work upon....”--_The Builder, London._
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”A very important subject to all those interested in art.”--_Belfast News Letter._
”It is now nine years since the photographs of Mr. Eadweard Muybridge surprised the world by challenging all received conceptions of animal motion.”--_Century Magazine, New York._
”The interest excited by the novelty, both of the demonstrations and the results, was so great, that Mr. Muybridge has been invited by the Photographic Society of Ireland to repeat them to-night in a public lecture.”--_The Freeman's Journal, Dublin._
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”The audience filled the large hall, and by their frequent and hearty applause, expressed their appreciation of the lecture.”--_Irish Times, Dublin._
”A very large audience again a.s.sembled in the Town Hall last evening, on the occasion of the second Lecture by Mr. Muybridge. The Mayor, who presided, referred to the first Lecture as perhaps the most unique ever delivered in Birmingham.”--_Birmingham Daily Gazette._
”The attendance was exceedingly large, and the Lecture and admirable ill.u.s.trations were loudly applauded.”--_The Irish Times, Dublin._
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”There was a very large attendance, and seldom have we seen so much genuine admiration and enthusiasm displayed as were evoked by Mr. Muybridge's ill.u.s.trations, which were really wonderful.”--_The Daily Express, Dublin._