Galloping Horse photographed using 12 camera’s in 1872 by Eadweard Muybridge. This is how film and animation came into being: a bet over whether a horse's four hooves are ever all off the ground. Muybridge settled it with a series of triggered cameras.
Most famous for his iconic racehorse time lapse photographs, Eadweard Muybridge revolutionized early photography. These are some of his century time lapse photographs put into motion.
huntingtonlibrary: “ It’s Eadweard Muybridge’s birthday! And for the occasion, we’ve animated a series of images he captured way back in The above images come from The Attitudes of Animals in Motion, part of our Muybridge holdings that include.