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Jerome Noel-Bouton
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shows us an old photo of his vines
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which used to be Marey's.
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There is a mini-museum
in the cellar.
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An engineer
and erudite physiologist,
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Marey invented chronophotography.
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He was a visionary.
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He analyzed movement
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before Muybridge and the Lumieres.
He is the ancestor of all movie makers,
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and we're proud to be family.
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Marey was my father's grandfather,
which makes him my great-grandfather,
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and to be more specific,
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my grandfather
was Marey's son-in-law, since...
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his wife, my grandmother,
was Marey's daughter.
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She married a man named Bouton
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and this estate, which used
to be in the Bouton family,
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was bought by Marey,
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and returned to the Bouton family
when his daughter married a Bouton.
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Congratulations!
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The tower you can see over there,
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he built with his own two hands
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to house his still camera equipment.
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He set up wires and waited.
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Animals or birds went past,
triggering the camera.
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That's the hut
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from which,
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with his chronophotographic rifle,
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he broke down the flight of birds.
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That's Demeny, Marey's assistant,
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holding the rifle and the film reel.
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I wonder who the boy
with a bowler hat is.
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Marey's experimental pictures
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and film bits,
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technical prowess aside,
are pure visual delight.