When did the movie appear?

1. Movies were invented in 1872.

2. One day in 1872, in a hotel in California, USA, Stanford and Cohen had a fierce dispute: Do the hooves of a horse touch the ground when it runs? Stanford believed that all four hooves of a running horse were in the air at the moment of leaping; Cohen believed that one hoof always touched the ground when a horse ran.

3. No one could convince anyone as a result of the dispute, so they resorted to the usual American method of betting to resolve the dispute. They invited a horse training expert to make a decision. However, the referee could not decide who was right and who was wrong. This is normal, because it is difficult to see how the hooves of a fast-running horse move with the human eye alone.

4. After the referee’s friend, British photographer Edward Muybridge, learned about this incident, he said that he could give it a try. He placed 24 cameras on one side of the runway, lined up in a row, with the camera lenses pointed at the runway.

5. On the other side of the runway, he drove 24 wooden stakes, and tied a string to each wooden stake. These strings crossed the runway and were tied to the shutters of each camera on the opposite side. superior.

6. After everything was ready, Muybridge brought a beautiful horse and let it gallop from one end of the track to the other. When the horse race passed through this area, the 24 pole leads were tripped and broken in turn, and the shutters of the 24 cameras were pulled in turn to take 24 photos. Muybridge edited the photos in order.

7. The movements of each two adjacent photos are very different, and they form a coherent photo strip. Based on this set of photos, the referee finally saw that all the hooves of the horse were in the air when it was running. Logically speaking, the story should have ended here, but this bet and the peculiar method of its determination aroused great interest. Muybridge showed people the photo tape of the galloping horse again and again.

8. Once, someone unconsciously pulled the photo strip quickly, and a strange scene appeared in front of them: the stationary horses in the photos were stacked into a moving horse, and it turned out to be "alive" Get up!