Excerpt from The Science of Animal Locomotion (Zoopraxography): An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements

IN 1872, the author of the present work at Sacramento, California, commenced an investigation with the object of illustrating by photography some phases of animal move ments. In that year his experiments were made with a famous horse - Occident, owned by Senator Stanford and photographs were made, which illustrated several phases of action while the horse was trotting at full speed, laterally, in front of the camera.

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