1884
ARTHUR BURDETT FROST (1851-1928)
The study of the origins of pre cinema often takes us into the world of art. Frost was an American illustrator, painter and artist known for his energetic depiction of motion and sequence.

During the ‘Golden Age of American Illustration’ (1880s-1920) Frost is measured as one of the great illustrators.

Having met him, Frost was inclined towards the sequential photographs of Eadweard Muybridge. This led to what Frost became known for; his ‘time-stop’ drawings.

As a result of his interest in Muybridge’s work, in 1884 Frost created illustrated panels of sequential images which included dialogue, in his book ‘Stuff and Nonsense’.

This became a predecessor to the comic strip.

Frost attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and was presented to Eadweard Muybridge by Thomas Eakins.

Frost’s ‘time stop’ drawings show sequence and motion, seems the closest art came to Muybridge’s Chronophotography.

Arthur Burdett Frost’s, ‘Nature Study with a Camera,’ two of 21 drawings for a 20-panel cartoon published in ‘The Ladies’ Home Journal’, 1915, pen and ink on stiff paper.

Without knowing for sure, I believe this to be a tribute to his friend Eadweard Muybridge. Looks a lot like Sallie Gardner minus her rider.

VIEW 'Stuff and Nonsense,' (Charles Scribner & Sons, NY, 1884) here @internetarchive https://archive.org/details/stuffnonsense00frosrich

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THE HISTORY OF THE DISCOVERY OF CINEMATOGRAPHY
An Illustrated Chronological History of the Development of Motion Pictures Leading to the Discovery of Cinematography in the 1800s

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