Eadweard Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge became pivotal to the creation of animation because of a man called Leland Stanford. Stanford wanted to scientifically answer the query of the time; 'Do all a horses legs leave the floor simultaneously as it gallops?', and hired Muybridge to help him prove it. Firstly, Muybridge proved his theory with a photographic negative in 1878 of a horse mid-gallop, with all his legs off the floor. This negative was lost, but Muybridge, spurred on by Stanford, expanded the project by taking a series of photographs of a moving horse named 'The Horse In Motion'. This series of photos stands as one of the earliest forms of videography. He then also made the same video but of an American bison cantering. This wasn't the only form of animation that Muybridge used, as he also practiced with a phenakistoscope portraying a couple waltzing. I am also keen on experimenting with different types of animation before definitively deciding on which style to stick with, although the basis will most probably be of photography stop motion I am interested in exploring different mediums.
Muybridge was a very popular animator, and often performed in front of large audiences, including the Royal Family. For these audiences he displayed his photographs via a zoopraxiscope. These photographs were mainly of animals and people, in a range of different actions and poses, including walking down stairs, boxing, and actions involving water. Between 1883-86, Muybridge created 100,000 images working with the University of Pennsylvania. They were published as 781 plates comprising 20,000 of the photographs in a collection titled Animal Locomotion.

I believe the example below relates to my project idea(s) as the theory is still the same. Muybridge still took several photographs of something moving, so that when it is played back it gives the impression of a moving image. I was also considering having an old-fashioned flickering effect somewhere in my animation, probably as an introduction, or for title sequences etc. I assume this video has no sound as at the time there was no way of adding music to videos and this wasn't filmed in a way that would make that possible. I plan to have sound with mine, either a soundtrack playing in the background or diegetic sounds that relate to what's happening in the film.