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Stanford horses and the birth of motion studies
Historian John Sandoval details Leland Stanford's use of cameras at Palo Alto Stock Farm to study horse locomotion. Ed ward Muybridge, funded by Stanford, developed rapid exposure plates and the zoopracope to capture animal movement, culminating in The Horse In Motion and related works.
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John Sandovall
Palo Alto Stock Farm
Leland Stanford
Stanford
Redrick MacCrellish
San Francisco
Alta California
MacCrelish
Alta
Ie Central, Pacific Railroad
Pranelgeo
Sacramento
Muybridge
Palo Alto
John D. Isaacs
T the
Central Pacific
Bridge
Moybridge
Paris
M. Meissonier
Stillman
Guaranee
Massachus Salts