The 12 Biggest Breakthroughs in Movie Technology

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1 Eadweard Muybridge Makes Pictures Move In the mid-1800s a heated debate was going on People argued whether a horse lifted all four feet off the ground as it ran Horses moved their feet too fast for people to see In 1872 British photographer Eadweard Muybridge was hired to settle this argument At the time cameras could take only one photograph Then new 4 film had to be added Also shutter speeds were slow They could not clearly capture fast movement To photograph a horse running Muybridge worked to increase the shutter speed of cameras His could open and snap shut in about 1 1000th of a second Also he lined up a series of cameras In this way he could take several photographs One right after another Muybridge took photos as a horse ran past his cameras The images captured the movement of the horse They showed that it lifted all four feet off the ground as it ran The argument was settled But more importantly Muybridge kept using this method of photography He took pictures of other animals He took pictures of people jumping and fencing To display these photographs Muybridge created the