Flashback: A Brief History of Film
How did the governor of California's commission for horse photography develop into Meissonier's project in creating the illusion of moving pictures?
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The governor, in the late 1800s, commissioned Eadward Muybridge to photograph a running horse as a means to settle the debate about whether all of a horse's feet left the ground during a full gallop. Meissonier took the series of photographs that detailed the horse's run and turned them into silhouettes. From here, he then projected the horse silhouettes through a Zoetrope, which then created the illusion of a horse running from the original pictures.
Flashback: A Brief History of Film