Ok, let’s start with some fun.

If you’re stuck for time, here’s Muybridge and the Invention of Cinema. VERY quickly...

Continuing the music theme, Muybridge’s photographs animated to music by Philip Glass from “The Photographer” (1982), which was inspired by Muybridge:

And now something quite simple. Muybridge animated, accompanied by Bach.

A zoo... what???

Zoetrope, zoopraxiscopes... it’s easy to confuse the odd names. But here’s what we’re really talking about:

And for some flippant fun, here’s a contemporary take on the machine:

And because Muybridge had such a pioneering influence on animation and the early Disney cartoons, it’s no surprise to see even more recent cartoons such as Toy Story pay hommage to Muybridge’s devices:

More recently, we saw a version of it on the BBC:

And a nice (if slightly cheesy) short history of motion pictures, from Muybridge onwards:

This New Scientist video discussed an exhibtion featuring works inspired by Muybridge, and advocates the idea that Muybridge was more artist than scientist:

Back to the idea of motion, here’s a computerized 3D visualization of how Muybridge set the scene to take his famous horse photographs:

“A History of Animation from Muybridge to Avatar”...