The Gospel of Georges Sadul. Book one, chapter 4. 1861. Leland Stanford is the head of California. In 1863 he was an honest businessman. He makes his fortune on railway construction, so this man would have entered history either as a politician or as a merchant, if not for his passion for horses.
Horses at that time were a fashion trend and about horses trended everyone who was not lazy. Stables, running, horse racing... From the point of view of Sadul, this was due to the fact that the powerful of the world of that horses were no longer a transport, but a luxurious accessory, which “did bring them closer to the ancient aristocracy of knights-riders.”
If, during the revolutionary period in the USSR, it was important to answer the question: “How can we reorganize Rabkrin?” The American rich had other problems. It was a question "On the exact position of the horse's legs under different allures."
In 1870, studies were conducted on soft sand. And all nothing, but the important thing is not how the horseman lands, but how the legs move when the horse is still in the air?
In 1872, the horseman dispute reached the finish line. So the governor is betting on a crazy amount of one million francs. The essence of the dispute is to decide "Is it reasonable to think that a horse in a gallop rests all its weight on ONE front hoof?"
The dispute, though a dispute, but as one Schwartz said, “What are your evidence....”
And that's where the main character of our storyWoW is the British emigrant Mr. Edward Maybridge.
And here the Englishman in NewArk, or rather San Francisco, lives in the rich apartments of Mr. Leland. However, the first pancake turned out to be a lump. On the one hand, the conditions are ideal - black horses against the background of a white wall and all that, but the result is sad - a darker spot against the background of a lighter one. What to do. The NTR is stuck on its way to poor and backward America. Required an impressive exposure on the camera, and ultra-high-speed shutters, which in advanced Europe were still little known to anyone, to California simply did not have time to get.
But the main fail was that the contours, shot randomly from different points of view, and even in addition with an interval of several days - did not decompose into successive phases of movement of one horse, and without this evidence were not considered.
It gets worse. Muybridge not only grows horns because of his wife, but also for a term for the removal of a certain engineer through the shooting.
In 1878, thanks to the patronage of Mr. Stanford, Edward continued filming the first western. It makes sense to say the first movie in the world.
The governor provided the inventor with an inexhaustible financial reserve and here is ... Win!!
This is how the event is described by "12 bathing booths, tightly adjacent to each other." In the door of each of them there is a hole through which the camera lens passes, and inside there are small laboratories in which colloidal plates can be prepared. During the shooting, 12 assistants enter 12 cabins, prepare 12 records, charge 12 devices. Give a signal ..."
Then everything works simply brilliantly simple, but effectively. Konya runs along the path, ropes are stretched across the tracks, which the konya tears while running, but these ropes are not simple, they are part of ... the shutter. So the rope broke. Click. So, the horse takes off itself.
It certainly wasn't all smooth. For example, the ropes could be quite strong, and then the cabin fell along with the unit and the person. The ropes themselves frightened the beast. In addition, the horseman is not a car, and therefore moved unevenly.
All this technical balancing was pretty ruinous. According to rumors, Leland spent more than one and a half million francs.
And yet, the success was complete. There was a lot of excitement at the work of Muybridge, which then eclipsed only the success of the notorious Lumieres, who in fact were not only the first, but also did not enter even the first hundred, but not about them.
1881. Muybridge in Europe. On it, as it would now be called "installation", people like Alexander Dumas-son came. So the cinema did not begin on the Boulevard Capuchinok, and 15 years earlier on the Boulevard Malzerb.
1882. Muybridge horses are being modernized and demonstrated by increasingly technological devices of that time. In his homeland in England, Edward's success is even more resounding. I'm sorry!!!
1885 was the beginning of the end. Muybridge systems are beginning to yield to simpler, cheaper and more efficient units. And yet, the impact of the horses was enormous. In Europe, Marais, after meeting Edward, essentially begins a cinematic revolution in France. In February 1886, Muybridge meets with Edison, who literally begins to rivet one invention after another.
1904. The horse ran off into the sun.
During the work on the text, material from the General History of Cinema by Georges Sadul was used.