“Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904) was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion and in motion-picture projection. Muybridge is known for his pioneering work on animal locomotion in 1877 and 1878, which used multiple cameras to capture motion in stop-action photographs, and his zoopraxiscope, a device for projecting motion pictures that pre-dated the flexible perforated film strip used in cinematography.
“In 1874 he shot and killed Major Harry Larkyns, his wife’s lover, and was acquitted in a jury trial on the grounds of justifiable homicide.”
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