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3. Four Legs Muybridge

Episode 3 of 5

Colin Ford explores how five groundbreaking photographs changed the world: Eadweard Muybridge's photos of animals. From 1999.

Colin Ford tells the stories behind five groundbreaking photographs and how they changed the world.

No animal painting and no vet's understanding was ever the same again after Eadweard Muybridge's Four Legs Muybridge.

His sequence of photographs, taken in California in 1872, proved that a horse had all four feet off the ground when galloping.

Producer: Hilary Dunn

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in December 1999.

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15 minutes

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