Horse and rider jumping a rail fence, early film still – Vintage Wall Art
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Horse and rider jumping a rail fence, early film still comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Horse and rider jumping a rail fence, early film still
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A rider and horse clear a rail fence in mid-leap, a subject early filmmakers favored because a single animal in fast, sweeping motion showed off the new camera. Thomas Edison's company made many short films of this kind in the 1890s, when his West Orange, New Jersey, laboratory was developing the Kinetoscope. Eadweard Muybridge's earlier sequences of galloping horses had already shown that motion could be broken into separate frames. This still holds one instant of a film built to move, which is what makes the jump worth a second look.
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,209 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125996 |
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