How did the governor of California's commission for horse photography develop into Meissonier's project in creating the illusion of moving pictures?

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.