Stanford’s Horses & the Birth of Cinema
May 01, 2022
3 minutes
by Carine Engelbrecht
“How does a horse move? When you look at the old paintings of galloping horses, they don’t look right. Some artists paint horses with at least one hoof on the ground, but that looks wrong. Why can’t someone work out how horses really move? How they gallop with four hooves off the ground and flying.”
Leland Stanford may not have used those exact words, but in 1872, that very question was burning a hole in his
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