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Did you know that this footage of a galloping horse and rider was the first-ever motion picture?! Dating back to 1878, this series of photographs was captured by photographer Eadweard Muybridge and presented stop-motion style with the aid of his own invention, the ‘zoopraxiscope’! Muybridge was obsessed with capturing motion and couldn't resist a request by Leland Stanford (founder of Stanford University and avid horse breeder) to photograph his favourite racehorses. Stanford wanted to prove tha