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Muybridge photographed a galloping horse to settle a bet

His 1878 sequence showed all four hooves leave the ground at once Leland Stanford hired Eadweard Muybridge to photograph a racehorse in motion at Palo Alto in 1878. Muybridge set up a row of cameras with tripwires the horse broke as it passed, capturing separate instants of the stride. The pictures proved a galloping horse lifts all four hooves off the ground, and they laid groundwork for moving pictures. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: His 1878 sequence showed all four hooves leave the ground at once. The figure is taken from Library of Congress, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.