Muybridge

Still, Shaffer devotes time to aspects of Muybridge’s legacy that don’t make all the standard rundowns.

One of the first scenes alludes to one of the first moving images in film history — a man riding on a horse, captured by 19th century inventor Eadweard Muybridge.

By Muybridge’s recollection, the series of photographs that became known as “The Horse in Motion” was first published in 1878.

He invokes what is thought to be the very first moving image, captured by the 19th-century inventor and adventurer Eadweard Muybridge, of a man on horseback.

Motion pictures sprang from that sequence, and Muybridge’s name is well-known to history.