How was the camera for shooting invented?

1872 One day, in a hotel in California, two young people had a heated argument about whether all the hooves touched the ground when the horse was running. No one can convince anyone of the result of the argument, so they took the usual way of Americans-betting to solve it. They hired an excellent horse trainer to judge, however, it is difficult for the referee to judge who is right and who is wrong.

The referee's good friend, British photographer McBride, said he could try. He placed a row of cameras on one side of the runway to continuously take pictures of horses running. In order to form a coherent photo tape, mcbride pieced these photos together, and finally saw that a horse always had a hoof on the ground when it was running and could not fly.

It is reasonable to say that the story should end here, but this bet and its strange judgment method have aroused great interest. Mcbride showed people a photo tape with images of galloping horses over and over again. Once, someone unconsciously pulled the photo tape quickly, and as a result, a strange scene appeared in front of him: the static horse in each photo was folded into a moving horse, and it was "alive"!

Inspired by this, French physiologist E-G Marley tried to study the action forms of animals with photos. Of course, the problem of continuous photography must be solved first, because McBride's photography is too troublesome and not practical enough. Male is a clever man. After several years of unremitting efforts, he finally made a portable "fixed film continuous camera" at 1888, which is the first film camera in the world.

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