The History of Art and Film
The history of art refers to the history of the visual arts of painting, sculpture, architecture, literature, and performing arts, it is the history of the fine arts.
Michael Jackson at the White House in 1990
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In 1878, under the sponsorship of Leland Stanford, Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed a horse named "Sallie Gardner" in fast motion using a series of 24 stereoscopic cameras. The experiment took place on June 11 at the Palo Alto farm in California with the press present. The cameras were arranged along a track parallel to the horse's, and each of the camera shutters was controlled by a trip wire which was triggered by the horse's hooves. They were 21 inches apart to cover the 20 feet taken by the horse stride, taking pictures at one thousandth of a second.
Roundhay Garden Scene from 1888 by Louis Le Prince
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Hollywood Sign above: Date-3 August 2007; Source originally posted to Flickr as Hollywood Sign
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