Lucien Bull became Étienne-Jules Marey's assistant at the Station Physiologique after Gorges Demenÿ left in 1894. Like Marey, he was interested in using chronophotography to understand motion. After Marey's death in 1904, he went to the Institut Marey where he worked on extremely high-speed chronophotography to study insect flight, among other things. Instead of a mechanical shutter and intermittent movement of the film, he used electric sparks to provide intermittent illumination. He was successful in filming the flight of a fly at a frame rate of 1200 frames per second. By 1924 he was filming at speeds of up to 100,000 frames per second.

The fragment here is an example of the high-speed photography he excelled in. This sequence is of a bullet passing through a lightbulb.