Show first Movi esan accident about 60 years ago governor leland stanford of california bet that a horse at full s speed ead took all four foot feet off the ground at once to prove his theory he employed edward Muy bridge a photographer to record on film a series of pictures of the engineer one of Stan fords thoroughbreds galloping it took Muy bridge six months to ordinate coordinate co horse and cameras he put the series of pictures in a stack and later while thumbing through them saw to his amazement the engineer running as the pictures flipped Muy bridges discovery started experiments by thomas edison and others on the best method of recording motion on f film am |