2. OVERVIEW OF EADWEARD
• Eadweard Muybridge, born in Kingston, Surrey was an English photographer important for
his groundbreaking work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture
projection.
• Eadweard was known as the ‘Grandfather of Motion Pictures’
• Muybridge’s experiments began in 1872 of photographic gatherings of animals.
• His first efforts were unsuccessful due to his camera lacking a fast shutter.
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/399928/Eadweard-Muybridge
http://www.eadweardmuybridge.co.uk/includes/img/homepage/horses2
jpg
3. OVERVIEW OF CATALOGUE
(ANIMAL LOCOMOTION)
• Eadweard’s first study, ‘The Horse In Motion (1882)’, was regarded as the first ever
moving picture which lead to foundations for the modern cinema.
• The Horse In Motion is a series of a galloping race horse which was the first animal
ever to be shown in a movie image format.
• This experiment proved without a doubt something that no one had ever seen which
was that a horse lifts all four hooves off the ground at a particular point whilst
running.
www.wildfilmhistory.org/film/2/2.html?filmid=2
http://www.nls.uk/media/12089/horse-in-motion-
t.jpg
4. OVERVIEW OF CATALOGUE
(ZOOPRAXISCOPE)
• Eadweard created the Zoopraxiscope which was invented in 1879.
• It consisted of a series of images in continuous stages of movement.
• These images were taken through the use of multiple cameras.
• These images looked like
this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oTPFjOobDM
Inventors.about.com/od/weirdmuseums/ig/Eadweard-
Muybridge/Zoopraxiscope-Animated.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oTPFjOobDM
5. INFLUENCES ON OTHERS
Eadweard Muybridge influenced/inspired:
• William Dickson – credited as inventor of the motion picture camera
• Thomas Edison – in 1888, Muybridge and Edison combined
thoughts together on a new projection system Muybridge had
invented (the Zoopraxiscope) with Edisons phonograph.
• Francis Bacon – painted from Muybridge photographs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/edhtml/edcyldr.html
6. QUOTE BY EADWEARD
"I am going to make a name for
myself. If I fail, you will never
hear of me again."
– Eadweard Muybridge
http://www.biography.com/people/eadweard-muybridge-9419513
7. QUIZ
1)WHERE WAS EADWEARD BORN?
2)WHAT WAS TWO OF EADWEARD’S
MOST FAMOUS AND INFLUENTUAL
WORK?
3)WHAT DID EADWEARD CONTRIBUTE
TO STOP MOTION ANIMATION?
