But inventors around the world were always working on something. Without Marey and Muybridge’s achievements, the invention of cinematography would have been a slower process. When was film invented The first motion picture camera These 12 photos captured the horse in motion and they were able to confirm Stanford’s belief. Technically, this is the first motion picture ever made. So as a horse rode down the track, its hooves would trip each shutter to expose a successive photo of the gallop. On a Sacramento racecourse, he set up a battery of twelve cameras with wires that stretched across the track, and each wire operated their shutters. It wasn’t until 1877 that he figured it out. Muybridge toiled and worked with multiple cameras to take successive photos of horses in motion. So Muybridge was hired to help Stanford win this bet. Conventions of that time and common illustrations proved otherwise, and of course the human eye couldn’t capture movement that rapid.

Stanford was a racehorse breeder and hired Muybridge to prove that a galloping horse lifts all four hooves off the ground at once. During 18, British American inventor, Eadweard Muybridge worked for California Governor Leland Stanford. The 1870s saw incredible innovation for the motion picture.

This was only possible with two things - the innovation of a photographic process in 1870 which reduces exposure time from one hour to one-hundredth of a second, and two, a certain technological development by Eadweard Muybridge from 1872 to 1877. 1840 saw Alexander Wolcott’s invention of the first camera that produced photographs that would not fade quickly.īut motion pictures would not exist until live action could be photographed simultaneously and spontaneously.

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