Race Horse First Film Ever 1878 Eadweard Muybridge

This Race Horse was the first Film ever, filmed in 1878 by Edward Muybridge.

Eadweard J. Muybridge (pronounced /ˌɛdwərd ˈmaɪbrɪdʒ/; 9 April 1830 -- 8 May 1904) was an English photographer who spent much of his life in the United States. He is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion which used multiple cameras to capture motion, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip.

By 1878, Muybridge had successfully photographed a horse in fast motion. This series of photos taken in Palo Alto, California, is called Sallie Gardner at a Gallop or The Horse in Motion, and shows that the hooves do all leave the ground — although not with the legs fully extended forward and back, as contemporary illustrators tended to imagine, but rather at the moment when all the hooves are tucked under the horse as it switches from "pushing" with the back legs to "pulling" with the front legs. This series of photos stands as one of the earliest forms of videography.

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Film & Animation

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• first film ever
• first film 1878
• rase horse film
• race horse in gallop
• Eadweard J. Muybridge
• short
• short film
• racing
• horses

[silentfilmhouse]

sure you may it is in the public domain

[TheOrangesmiles]

@alexash11 yeah you are correct my grandma has a book were u flip it really fast and looks like a video

[PauloGasparSenaV]

i don't actually know if is this the first but i know it's famous

[ProductionsEden]

somehow, i found this creepy

[alexash11]

@PuddiNovaXZ had a line of cameras which the horse ran passed and put together images from each camera.

[PuddiNovaXZ]

How was it stabled in the middle??? And is he black???

[joedljoedl]

at least its better then avatar

[mrfear8675377]

is that the movie?

[AlessandraW19]

This is so cool! Thanks

[Domicrow1]

May i ask, where did you find this to upload?

[LongDieseldog]

And to think, 100 years later Halloween (1978) came out.