How A Murderer Helped Invent Motion Pictures
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The first "movie" came about because of bet between friends about whether or not all four horses's hoofs were off the ground at the same time while galloping.
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Sources:
Inora Newsletter #43: Breaking Down Movement In Palaeolithic Art:
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/ino...
"Palaeolithic artists have tried to give life to the animals that they represented on cave walls or other supports at their disposal and which have survived until the present (plaques, stone blocks, objects from daily life)."
Early Humans Made Animated Art:
http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/early...
"Stone steps descended into the ground, and I walked down them slowly as if I were entering a dark movie theater, careful not to stumble and disrupt the silence."
Stoneage Artists Created Prehistoric Movies:
http://news.discovery.com/history/arc...
"Stone Age artists used? ?cartoon-like techniques to give the impression that wild beasts were trotting or running across cave walls,? ?a new study? has suggested."
The Man Who Stopped Time:
https://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/...
"On a bright, balmy morning in June of 1878, a crowd of racing enthusiasts and newspapermen huddled beside the track on the Palo Alto Stock Farm, waiting to see a horse run. Leland Stanford had invited them to his estate and horse-training mecca to witness a photographic first."
June 15, 1878: Muybridge Horses Around With Motion Pictures:
http://www.wired.com/2009/06/dayintec...
"Photographer Eadweard Muybridge uses high-speed stop-motion photography to capture a horse's motion. The photos prove that the horse has all four feet in the air during some parts of its stride."
The Early History of Motion Pictures:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/pickford...
"Since motion pictures were invented, audiences have loved how they tell stories. Movies enabled people to travel the world vicariously, and experience tragedy, love and nearly every other emotion."
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