{"id":51,"date":"2020-06-01T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edwarmar\/?p=51"},"modified":"2020-06-08T17:48:46","modified_gmt":"2020-06-08T17:48:46","slug":"1888-1909-first-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/edwarmar\/2020\/06\/01\/1888-1909-first-film\/","title":{"rendered":"“1888-1909”- The First Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0When it comes to the first film, one image comes into the minds of many. The Galloping Horse or The Horse in Motion. These iconic images were one of a series of photographs shot by Eadward Muybridge. In 1872, the governor of California, Leland Stanford hired Muybridge, a famous photographer known for his photos of California, to settle a $25,000 bet about how horses stride. Stanford argued that horses stride with all four feet off the ground at full speed. [1]<\/a><\/p>\n

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Photo Courtesy from the Library of Congress.\r\nhttps:\/\/www.loc.gov\/resource\/cph.3a45870\/<\/pre>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0At first, Muybridge\u2019s photos provided no conclusive evidence to Stanford. Since the experiment failed, Muybridge and Stanford separated. Some time passed until the next attempt.[2]<\/a>\u00a0 During this time, Muybridge was tried for the murder of his wife\u2019s lover and successfully plead innocent by reason of insanity.[3]<\/a> Finally, in 1877, the conversation between the two started again and Muybridge went all out for his next few tests. This time, Muybridge used 12 cameras (but then 24), \u00a0to snap the horse’s movement.[4]<\/a>\u00a0This time the tests were conclusive, and Stanford was happy. Next year, Muybridge performed the test again with Stanford and invited reporters to watch the experiment.[5]<\/a> Later, Muybridge made his photos into a short movie with a device he created called the Zoogyroscope. The Zoogyroscope, which was later named the Zoopraxiscope, was an early form of a projector.[6]<\/a> And with that, Muybridge made the first movie; however, his movie was not shot on film. It was just a series of photos rapidly moving. So, what was the first film?<\/p>\n
\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 If you do consider a series of photographs moving rapidly as a film, then Passage de Venus<\/em> was the first \u201cfilm.\u201d[7]<\/a> Passage de Venus <\/em>was a series of photos taken by a French astronomer Pierre Janssen.[8]<\/a><\/p>\n