Early Movies : A Horse in Motion, authored by Muybridge

(video by Channel Stop)

Was this the first movie? Maybe: A Horse in Motion, 1878. Author: Eadweard Muybridge, the great pioneer of cinematography, who photographed a horse named Occident in fast motion using a series of 12 stereoscopic cameras. The first successful experience took place on June 11 at a farm in Palo Alto, California. The cameras were arranged along a track parallel to the horse's, and each of the camera shutters was controlled by a trip wire which was triggered by the horse's hooves (I took this info from PastFinder).


And so, the movie history began with finding the answer to the galloping question: is there a moment during a gallop when all four of a horse's hooves leave the ground at the same time?

• 1860: The First Sound Ever Recorded
• The Man Who Split the Second
• La Sortie des Usines Lumière (1895)
• Jerusalem, 1917, and then 1896
• Eugène Pirou
• Union Square under Blizzard - one of the oldest New York movies
• Skyline of Manhattan - The Hoffmannesque City - Homage to Billy Bitzer
• New York City Subway - Billy Bitzer Again
• The Insects' Christmas (1913)
• Elevated Railroad, New York City, 1903
• Volga, Volga, the Song of Stenka Razin
• Santa Claus (1898)
• Yakov Protazanov: Father Sergius (1917)
• Down Market Street, San Francisco
• Georges Méliès
• Dante's Inferno in a Movie from 1911
• Mack Sennett, The Gusher, 1913
• Caruso in a Silent Movie from 1918
• Rare Footage from 1932: Tetrazzini Singing Over a Record of Caruso 
• 1927: FDNY Ride Along with Chief Kenlon
• Charlot
• Bert Williams
• Yester Vid
• NY in Old Footage
• Pictori americani contemporani cu inceputurile cinematografului

(Filmofilia)