The Motion Picture Industry

Horses have been a huge contribution to the film industry starting in 1878 when Edward Muybridge first experimented with motion pictures by taking a  rapid series of photos which displayed a horse  galloping. This experiment not only was the start of motion picture, but it also proved the physiology of a horses gallop. Muybridge and his experiment proved that horses appear to leave all hooves at one point in their gallop. It is amazing to think that an animal was the main contributing actor to establish this industry so long ago.  But did this event spark the use and abuse of animals in film?