Complex sentence: The following year, Stanford financed Muybridge's next project: to use multiple cameras to photograph a Thoroughbred at a gallop at Stanford's thoroughbred farm in Palo Alto on June 15,1878 in the presence of the press.
Split into simpler sentences: The following year, Stanford financed Muybridge's next project. He took photographs with multiple cameras at Stanford's thoroughbred farm in Palo Alto on June 15,1878 in the presence of the press.