Running (Galloping)

In the early 1880s Leland Stanford, an industrialist and former governor of California, commissioned Eadweard Muybridge to test a theory: that all four hoofs of a horse lift off the ground during a gallop. Muybridge devised a system for simultaneously tripping the shutters of up to twenty-four cameras arranged on a low shelf as the animal advanced across a racetrack. This test succeeded in visually halting the motion of a rapidly moving horse and proving the theory to be correct.