CINEMA TIP TOP FACTS!... Eadweard Muybridge

Occident was the name of the horse used by Eadweard Muybridge to make the first photograpic motion secuence on the human history...Improving his cameras with the quicker shutter speed and faster film emulsions, the stallion passed and Voilá! He becomes into a celebrity, and overcome a bloody scandal. He was workaholic, between 1883 and 1886, Muybridge made more than 100,000 images, and his published book"animal locomotion" (1887) got 20 000.





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