Matinees On Main Street: A Movie History Podcast

Episode 5: Muybridge Photographs Racehorses

Episode Summary

<p>We follow the trials and tribulations of Eadweard Muybridge and Gov. Leland Stanford after their first horse photograph sessions in Sacramento.  Muybridge faces a murder trial and Stanford leaves Sacramento for San Francisco, and the two men eventually spend two years shooting pictures of racehorses at Stanford's horse farm at Palo Alto.  </p>

Episode Notes

We follow the trials and tribulations of Eadweard Muybridge and Gov. Leland Stanford after their first horse photograph sessions in Sacramento.  Muybridge faces a murder trial and Stanford leaves Sacramento for San Francisco, and the two men eventually spend two years shooting pictures of racehorses at Stanford's horse farm at Palo Alto.