jan 18, 1878 - The Horse In Motion - Eadweard Muybridge

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(This breakthrough in the early 1870s inspired another student of animal motion, Etienne Jules Marey of France, to develop in 1882 a rotating camera rather like a rifle, where different pictures were taken in a rapid sequence by a rotating cartridge.)

This groundbreaking motion photography was accomplished using multiple cameras and assembling the individual pictures into a a single motion picture. it’s something that you could do today, using a few cameras that are set to go off at an exact moment. The movie was made to scientifically answer a popularly debated question during this era: Are all four of a horse’s hooves ever off the ground at the same time while the horse is galloping? The video proved that they indeed were and, more importantly, motion photography was born.

Race Horse First Film Ever 1878 Eadweard Muybridge - (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEqccPhsqgA)

(https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/edison-patents-the-kinetograph)

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