Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge or the 'father of the motion picture', conducted some photographic experiments that laid the foundation for modern cinema. By inventing the zoopraxiscope, Eadweard found a way to project his silhouettes in rapid succession onto a screen. First demonstrated to the public in 1882, it is often quoted as the first ever moving picture. Years later, his work was considered a major inspiration in the invention of the modern cine camera by Thomas Edison. Having sparked considerable scientific interest, Muybridge took his work to the University of Pennsylvania. Developing a new multi-lens camera, he produced a high-speed study into the movement of both animals and humans, published in eleven volumes such as Animal Locomotion: An electro-photographic investigation of consecutive phases of animal movement (1887).
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