How One Horse Inspired the Invention of Movies

This isn't even the strangest story about Muybridge (real name Edward James Muggeridge). In 1874 he shot and killed his wife's lover Major Harry Larkyns, but was aquitted by a jury who thought it was reasonable under the circumstances.

His motion studies are great for artists or animators.

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This is a story about a horseā€”a horse whose fate was inextricably tied to the invention of film. It all started in 1872, when eventual Stanford University founder Leland Stanford made a bet with some colleagues. The bet in question concerned whether, at any point during a gallop, all four of a horse's hooves were off the ground at the same time. Stanford contacted an English photographer named Eadweard Muybridge to set things straight. With a horse running along a row of cameras all set to tripwires, Muybridge settled the bet in Stanford's favor. But the bet ultimately paled in comparison to Muybridge's achievement: for his tripwire-camera exploits, Muybridge is now considered one of the fathers of the motion picture.

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