Eadweard Muybridge and the Praxinoscope
Eadweard Muybridge is an english photographer who became famous in the late 19th century for the pioneering of his work that was known as Animal Locomotion. This work involved the use of multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-motion photographs. His work was published and most often cut into strips and used in a Praxinoscope which is a descendant of a Zoetrope. This device was a primitive motion picture projector that recreated the illusion of motion by projecting still images in rapid succession onto a display from the photos that were printed on the rotating class disc on the inside of the Praxinoscope. Below is a clip of the famous "Horse in Motion" as captured and reproduced into a motion film using the Praxinoscope. On a sidenote, not only was this famous for it's revolutionary use of still images in rapid succession, but also it was determined that when horses gallop they have all four feet off of the ground at one point. [10]
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