Near the 1880’s, people were amazed by the sequential photographs that Eadweard Muybridge learned how to create. He used a series of somewhere between 12 and 24 cameras that sat side by side. They were opposite of a reflecting screen of some sort. There were threads attached to the shutters that went off when the horse moved by. Eadweard Muybridge caught sequential images of a horse walking, trotting, and also galloping. The first motion-picture show was created from these pictures and shown at the San Francisco Art Association.
Photo description: Eadweard Muybridge’s photographic study of a man jumping a horse, from Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements. Commenced 1872–Completed 1885. Volume IX, Horses, 1880s; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.