Eadweard muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge

Edward Muybridge, an English photographer captured a horse in motion in 1879 which can be marked as one of the earliest attempts of motion pictures in the world. inventor and innovator-Eadweard Muybridge was the first man in history to record a continuous live action by using still cameras which captured consecutive stages of movement. Muybridge was one of the early pioneers of photography, whose work documenting the movements of animals and humans continues to inform and influence today. He invented the zoopraxiscope - one of the first film projector in the world to animate sequences of images to display nymphs dancing. He won a substantial bet when his series of photographs depicting a galloping horse proving that at one stage of motion all four hooves are off ground.
He is known as the 'father of the motion picture'. The famous Horse in motion was a study that was regarded as the first ever moving picture.
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