biography
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Muybridge, Eadweard
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originally Edward James Muggeridge
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pronunciation:
[moybrij]
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| lived:
| (1830–1904)
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| biography:
| Photographer and inventor, born in Kingston-on-Thames, SW Greater London, UK. He emigrated to California in 1852, and became a professional photographer, then chief photographer to the US government. He was commissioned to take a series of action photographs to prove that a trotting horse has all its feet off the ground at times. This he achieved in 1877 when faster photographic plates became available. In 1880 he devised the zoopraxiscope to show his picture sequences, achieving a rudimentary kind of cinematography in his Zoopraxographical Hall in Chicago (1893), which was hailed as the world's first motion picture theatre. He also carried out an extensive survey of the movements of animals and humans, publishing the results as Animal Locomotion (1887). He returned to England following his retirement in 1900. |
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