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Muybridge card: Abe Edgington trotting horse motion study text – Historic Reproduction

Muybridge card: Abe Edgington trotting horse motion study text — historic image
Muybridge card: Abe Edgington trotting horse motion study text. Historic image from the Movies & Film collection.

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Few pictures on this board show a horse as clearly as this card does, with the trotting stallion Abe Edgington caught in a sequence of frames. Eadweard Muybridge made these studies in the late 1870s, using a row of cameras whose shutters were tripped by threads stretched across the track. His goal was to settle a debate about whether a trotting horse ever has all four hooves off the ground at once. The sequence of separate frames he produced is a direct ancestor of motion pictures, and it helped lay the groundwork for the projected animation that followed.

Original scan5,265 × 3,383 px · prints to 18 × 11 in at 300 dpi
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