Sallie Gardner at a Gallop

I just watched screen rant and ryan commanded me to get this movie to 8 so I am doing what I can. Get this movie to 8 people!!!!! Or You won't be able to get to live in Québec when his producer buys canada.

This movie is a 10 out of 10 best cinematic motion pictures ever published. I love how the audio complements the visuals and how the man goes in a circle.

I don't know what I would do without this masterpiece of a film I think it is so very advanced for its time and I am Imprest with how it holds up in court and how Jonny Depp won a very well 10 out of 10.

I think what this film lacks in the story makes up for in characters and humor. I think it is one of the best and most well-acted pieces in all of film history.

This is what I think of when I think of films. I love everything about this movie and I think the best part of it was when the guy was in the horse anyway 10 out of 10 100% would watch it again.

...There is the guy taking the academic standpoint and who wrote a film school master's thesis about this early experiment as a review. At the other end of the spectrum there is the guy who wrote his review as satire as though he'd seen this in a movie theater and was very upset for having wasted his time and money on it. So what's left to say at this point but - "Look at the pretty horsie"? Well, I'll try.

Leland Stanford was a horse enthusiast, industrialist, and railroad baron who became governor of California later in the 19th century and was the founder of Stanford University. He wanted to settle a bet as to whether or not all four hooves of a horse were off the ground at any point in time when running. He turned to noted photographer Eadweard Muybridge for that task.

Muybridge used multiple cameras to photograph Stanford's Kentucky-bred Sallie Gardner, galloping at the businessman's farm in Palo Alto, in the presence of the press. The shutters were controlled by trip wires triggered by the horse's legs. However, to correctly display the horse in motion required an invention by Muybridge that was completed the year after the photos were taken - the zoopraxiscope. It projects images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the illusion of motion, and is considered the oldest movie projector. The 24 photos Muybridge took of Sallie Gardner running were shown using this device. This invention inspired Edison's invention, the Kinetoscope, the first commercial film exhibition system. And the answer? Yes, there is a point when all four hooves are indeed off of the ground.

Later, when Muybridge was in Europe touring and demonstrating his technique and his images in motion, he was told that back in the United States Leland Stanford had published a book entitled "The Horse In Motion", basically claiming credit for the early motion studies as his own, with no mention of Muybridge. This left Muybridge bereft of reputation. This was a rather dangerous thing for Stanford to do since Muybridge had, in 1874, committed the premeditated murder of a man he suspected to be his wife's lover and yet was acquitted with a verdict of justifiable homicide. Stanford would have known about this because, among other reasons, he paid for Muybridge's defense.

If all of the colorful characters that went into this forerunner to moton pictures had not existed, then the motion picture industry would have eventually invented them. I give this an 8/10 for its importance to the history of motion pictures.

Once again, as with Janssen's work, I do not consider it appropriate to classify this product as a film, as it completely lacks any intention of entertainment and is not a film reel but rather a sequence of photographs joined together later.

However, we must acknowledge Muybridge's originality and the effectiveness of the Zoopraxiscope, which he himself invented, as well as the method of using successive cameras triggered by a cord pulled by the horse as it passed. The historical significance of this product (note, not a "film") also lies in its ability to answer the curious question posed by the commissioner Stanford about the fact that, while galloping, horses lift all their legs off the ground simultaneously.

Rating: NC.

I'm crediting Jordan Peele and the movie "Nope" for me even having an interest in this. "Nope" wasn't that good, but that's beside the point. In there one of the characters mentioned that the very first "movie" was of Black jockey on a horse.

Just on a quick search I found that on 19 June 1878, Muybridge decided to do an experiment. He rigged a race track with 12 strings and made a race-horse named Sallie Gardner gallop on the track. Sallie Gardner was a mare owned by Leland Stanford, governor of California. The galloping horse broke the strings one by one as it went through them. These 12 strings were attached with a series of 12 cameras. The associated camera took a photo as soon as the attached string would break. The result was a series of 12 photos in which 2nd and 3rd photos showed Sallie Gardner's all hooves off the ground. Once again, Muybridge was successful in answering the horse gallop question. But more importantly Muybridge was able to produce the world's first motion picture showing a galloping horse by quickly running these 12 photographs in sequence. Muybridge had actually laid the foundation of modern videography.