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Muybridge

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Muy·bridge  (mbrj), Eadweard Originally Edward James Muggeridge. 1830-1904.
British-born American motion-picture pioneer, particularly noted for his series of photographs of horses in motion, taken by a set of still cameras.
Muybridge [ˈmaɪbrɪdʒ]
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(Biographies / Muybridge, Eadweard (1830-1904) M, USnational of birth: British, ARTS AND CRAFTS: photographer) Eadweard (ˈɛdwəd), original name Edward James Muggeridge. 1830-1904, US photographer, born in England; noted for his high-speed photographic studies of animals and people in motion
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Noun1.Muybridge - United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (born in England) (1830-1904)Muybridge - United States motion-picture pioneer remembered for his pictures of running horses taken with a series of still cameras (born in England) (1830-1904)
Eadweard Muybridge, Edward James Muggeridge
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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The way four-legged animals walk has been well known since the 1880s, when the English photographer Eadweard Muybridge created motion-capture sequences that revealed the order of leg movement: The left hind leg moves forward, followed by the left foreleg, the right hind leg, and right foreleg.
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Score : 2 Final score : 30 Hollywood History (a short one) As early as 1878, Eadweard Muybridge showed audiences how to capture motion through photography by using Thomas Edison's Kinetoscope.
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This was quite unexpected because the experts of animal locomotion have known well the characteristics of quadruped walking ever since the famous and pioneering work of Eadweard Muybridge, published in the 1880s," he added.
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