Monday?s Google doodle celebrates Eadweard J. Muybridge

Diane Alter ? AHN News Reporter

Mountain View, CA, United States (AHN) ? Monday?s Google doodle pays tribute to motion picture innovator Eadweard J. Muybridge, the man whose 1878 series of photos known as ?The Horse in Motion? was a precursor to motion pictures, television and video-sharing sites such as YouTube.

The Internet search giant?s ?Horse in Motion? doodle appears as a strip of photos until a user clicks on the yellow play button. The race horses come to life and run in what appears to be an endless loop until the Google logo is clicked and you are brought to a search results page for Muybridge.

Muybridge was known as the ?Father of the Motion Pictures.? In 1872, he set out to scientifically prove that when horses trot, all four hooves are off the ground at the same time. His images proved that they were.

Born on April 9, 1830, in England, Muybridge is also known for inventing the zoopraxiscope, one of the earliest devices to display motion pictures, a forerunner of movie projectors that inspired Thomas Edison?s pursuits of developing a motion picture device, which became the kinetoscope.

Muybridge continued to study the movement of animals as well as nude or mostly nude people using stop-frame photography. He published on book on his studies, more than 20,000 pictures, called ?Animal Locomotion.?

He died May 8, 1904.

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