# Marvels of Motion

Newsreel-style novelty or educational film about animal and human locomotion using voiceover, intertitles, and special photographic techniques and tricks, including slow motion, reverse motion, matte shots, freeze frames, and animation. Includes sections on horses, dogs, and cows, as well as rodeo scenes featuring a horse identified as Ranger - the World’s Champion Jumper, Buff Brady, a trick-roping star, and Little Joe, a rodeo performer of short stature. Partial sequence list: slow-motion thoroughbred horses in motion, walking, trotting and jumping Jockey falling off of horse on steeplechase -- shown backwards Dog with paw in mouth Five hound puppies in fenced yard jumping up on fence, wanting out (good) Man and dog against black background, lighted brightly, nothing visible in background, doing hoop and jumping tricks (good) dog jumps through hoop; motion goes forwards and backwards so dog appears suspended, like rapid editing of the 2000s Dalmatian dog jumping fence dog climbing wall in slow motion dog jumping off barge in port, fast and slow-motion shown in reverse as well dog shaking off water in slow motion dog jumping over crouching men, with effect that elongates its body like super-long Dachshund (good) cow walking, with effect appearing to "scratch" her motion in forward and reverse Cow seen through squares of wire fence, appearing to elongate and shorten as she walks through Cow walking, seen through mirrored lenses so she appears to slide into nothingness and…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1930
- By: Allan McDonald, Alfred Weiss
- Genres: Nature, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/200466_Marvels_of_Motion)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/200466_Marvels_of_Motion?play=1)