The Science of Animal Locomotion (Zoopraxography) / An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements

AN ELECTRO-PHOTOGRAPHIC INVESTIGATION OF CONSECUTIVE PHASES OF ANIMAL MOVEMENTS
BY EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE
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EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PHILADELPHIA
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In 1872, the author of the present work at Sacramento, California, commenced an investigation with the object of illustrating by photography some phases of animal movements. In that year his experiments were made with a famous horse—Occident, owned by Senator Stanford—and photographs were made, which illustrated several phases of action while the horse was trotting at full speed, laterally, in front of the camera.
The experiments were desultorily continued; but it was not until 1877 that the results of any of them were published.
In the meanwhile he devised an automatic electro-photographic apparatus, for the purpose of making consecutive photographic exposures at regulated intervals of time or of distance. Some of the results of his experiments with this apparatus, which illustrated successive phases of the action of horses while walking, trotting, galloping, &c., were published in 1878, with the title of The Horse in Motion. Copies of these photographs were deposited the same year in the Library of Congress at Washington, and some of them found their way to Berlin, London, Paris, Vienna, &c., where they were commented upon by the journals of the day.