Pioneer photographer Eadweard Muybridge becomes entangled in railroad robber baron Leland Stanford's delusions of grandeur.

They think he's crazy. After many months of testing gadgets and shutters, rehearsing shots, and devising new techniques with Stanford's horse as a model, Eadweard Muybridge manages to prove the ...

The first is Eadweard Muybridge’s “The Horse in Motion,” from 1878. Using an early version of a projector called a zoopraxiscope, the images appeared to move and proved that all four of a ...

The work, which eventually ran to over 100,000 images, was carried out as research for the University of Pennsylvania between 1884 and 1887 and documents a series of human and animal subjects, each ...

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How Eadweard Muybridge revealed a horse's true running gait for the first time. It was a rumoured $25,000 bet that secured flamboyant photographer Eadweard Muybridge’s fame in capturing a horse ...

Using both the horse locomotion photographic studies of Eadweard Muybridge and footage of an early train wreck by Thomas A. Edison, each section is manipulated to study motion, experiments in ...

Eadweard Muybridge, to settle a bet between California businessman Leland Stanford and his colleagues. Stanford contended that at some point in a horse's stride, all four hooves were off the ground.

Eadweard Muybridge, to settle a bet between California businessman Leland Stanford and his colleagues. Stanford contended that at some point in a horse's stride, all four hooves were off the ground.