Did a horse invent the movies? No, no, no… But alongside photographer Eadweard Muybridge, a horse played a huge part in the breakthrough that led to the first motion pictures! Let’s roll back the tape (or rewind the film) to learn the history of the earliest moving image.
Try this at home! 🎨 Set a horse in motion with this flipbook coloring page, and create a flipbook to make your own silent film!
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Director/Writer/Producer: Emma Vecchione
Producer: Rachel Smith
Head of Marketing and Digital Content: Gretchen Scott
Senior Content Strategist: Joan Thompson
Senior Manager of Media Production: Skyla Choi
Animation Direction: Lisa LaBracio
Character Design and Animation: Mia Incantalupo
Compositing: Lisa LaBracio
Additional Illustrations: Tara Sunil Thomas
Narrator: Rachel Smith, Tess Hamilton
Episode Consultants: Tess Hamilton, Jonathan Farbowitz
Education Consultants: Jamie Song
Original Music: Austin Fisher
Sound Mix: Dave Raymond
Fact-Checking: Maura Fox
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Special Thanks: Jeff Rosenheim, Lauren Rosati, Stephen Pinson
