Sallie Gardner at a Gallop

This movie is a 10 out of 10 best cinematic motion pictures ever published. I love how the audio complements the visuals and how the man goes in a circle.

I don't know what I would do without this masterpiece of a film I think it is so very advanced for its time and I am Imprest with how it holds up in court and how Jonny Depp won a very well 10 out of 10.

I think what this film lacks in the story makes up for in characters and humor. I think it is one of the best and most well-acted pieces in all of film history.

This is what I think of when I think of films. I love everything about this movie and I think the best part of it was when the guy was in the horse anyway 10 out of 10 100% would watch it again.

I'm crediting Jordan Peele and the movie "Nope" for me even having an interest in this. "Nope" wasn't that good, but that's beside the point. In there one of the characters mentioned that the very first "movie" was of Black jockey on a horse.

Just on a quick search I found that on 19 June 1878, Muybridge decided to do an experiment. He rigged a race track with 12 strings and made a race-horse named Sallie Gardner gallop on the track. Sallie Gardner was a mare owned by Leland Stanford, governor of California. The galloping horse broke the strings one by one as it went through them. These 12 strings were attached with a series of 12 cameras. The associated camera took a photo as soon as the attached string would break. The result was a series of 12 photos in which 2nd and 3rd photos showed Sallie Gardner's all hooves off the ground. Once again, Muybridge was successful in answering the horse gallop question. But more importantly Muybridge was able to produce the world's first motion picture showing a galloping horse by quickly running these 12 photographs in sequence. Muybridge had actually laid the foundation of modern videography.

I just watched screen rant and ryan commanded me to get this movie to 8 so I am doing what I can. Get this movie to 8 people!!!!! Or You won't be able to get to live in Québec when his producer buys canada.

Sallie Gardner at the Gallop (1878)

While this here isn't technically the first movie, it was certainly a great introduction of what was to come. We basically see a horse being filmed by twenty-four different cameras for what amounts to a moving image. I'm not about to rip off other people's work so it's best that you Google this title and read for yourself what exactly had to be done to give it the effect that we are seeing today. It's impossible to viewing this as a "movie" and it would be silly to do so especially since that's not what it is. It's just twenty-four images of a horse put together and of course we know what happens.

Once again, as with Janssen's work, I do not consider it appropriate to classify this product as a film, as it completely lacks any intention of entertainment and is not a film reel but rather a sequence of photographs joined together later.

However, we must acknowledge Muybridge's originality and the effectiveness of the Zoopraxiscope, which he himself invented, as well as the method of using successive cameras triggered by a cord pulled by the horse as it passed. The historical significance of this product (note, not a "film") also lies in its ability to answer the curious question posed by the commissioner Stanford about the fact that, while galloping, horses lift all their legs off the ground simultaneously.

Rating: NC.