In 1878 Eadweard Muybridge was challenged to prove that while galloping, a horse's four legs would all be in the air at the same time. He did so, with
a bunch of cameras, trip wire and the lovely thoroughbred, Sallie Gardener.
This is also the beginning of the screenwriting course that I'll be teaching soon. Ain't it cool?
Here's his next photographic esssay: Woman Dropping Handkerchief
Here's Another: Men Wrestling:
It didn't take movies very long to feature naked folk, did it?
I like that about the cinema.
xoxo Mad
ps - In 1874, still living in the San Francisco Bay Area, Muybridge discovered that his wife had a lover, a Major Harry Larkyns. On October 17, 1874, he sought out Larkyns; said, "Good evening, Major, my name is Muybridge and here is the answer to the letter you sent my wife"; and shot and killed him. He was put on trial for the killing, but acquitted of the killing on the grounds that it was "justifiable homicide."
What a guy!
