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Lucien Bull

Lucien Bull was a native of Dublin, born in January in 1876. His father, Cornelius Bull, was British and his mother Gabrielle Joune was French.(1) His father Cornelius worked as a carpenter/merchant. Bull lived his younger years in Dublin attending school and living at home with his parents.

Bull decided to uproot and move to France in 1894 at the age of 18 to visit his mother’s sisters, which in turn ended up with him permanently living there.(2) This is where he became an assistant to the great Etienne-Jules Marey in 1895. Marey was a very well known France scientist, physiologist and chronophotographer. He became like a second father to Bull. At the time Marey was working on a specific type of camera called the ‘gun camera’. Bull assisted him with the creation of this and was ultimately able to take the first successful film on it, which was the flight of a fly. (3) After Marey’s death in 1904, Lucien Bull became the head of the Marey Institute. Marey was known for inventing the sphygmograph, an instrument used now to take blood pressure. He was known as well for his contribution to motion picture and especially his study of the flight of birds. (4)

Lucien Bull, an only child, never married or had any children and in turn his family name Bull died with him.

1. http://www.engineersjournal.ie/2018/04/17/father-cinematography-bull-quick-fly/ 2. http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/life-society/science-technology/irish-scientists/bull-lucien/. 3. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Etienne-Jules-Marey 4. http://www.victorian-cinema.net/marey.