Muybridge

What were Muybridge's contributions to motion pictures?  What breakthroughs did he make?  Why are they significant?  What part of the story did you find the most interesting?  Why?

    Muybridge's contributions to motion pictures were the Zoopraxiscope and his series of sequential photographs that could capture motion. The Zoopraxiscope was able to project an animated picture, which Muybridge used to exhibit his photography to show the movement that he captured. His biggest breakthrough was developing a way to capture images quick enough to capture each frame of movement. This was significant because, prior to him, photographs often took minutes to expose. It would be impossible to capture movement with such a long exposure time, but he developed a way to capture it, which paves the way to motion pictures. I found his encyclopedia the most interesting as it likely was able to be studied by artists as well as scientists. The collection of photographs can be used to understand how to capture motion in art.