Topic > Movie Analysis: The Moving Horse - 598

Movies are a great way to take a break from your busy life and simply relax. Movies have been entertaining you and everyone around the world since the mid-1800s. Evolution film has moved from black and white images to color and sound to 3-D film. Filmmakers, artists and inventors have spent hundreds of years perfectly placing captured images one by one in fluid motion to make a ten-second film. So just think about trying to create the 3D effect or even how movies were created. Eadweard Muybridge was a director who made the first film in 1878, The Horse in Motion. He used multiple cameras and put the individual images into a film. Muybridge's film was simply a picture of a galloping horse. Muybridge also invented the Zoopraxiscope, the first ever cinema projector that made short films and feature films. It was capable of rapidly projecting images, creating what is known as motion photography and the first film ever to exist. To use the Zoopraxiscope, a disk is inserted into the device and turned. As the disc spins, images are projected onto the screen and the film begins ...