Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-26
The ZOogyrOscODe.
Interesting Exhibition of Photographs OfAnimals in Motion.
 From the San Francisco Call

Interesting Exhibition of Photogra phs OfAnima1s i'm Motion.
 From the San Francisco Call
 private exhibition of the zoogyroscope was given by E J8fay bridge She photograph ] CT, at the gallery of the San Francisco Art Association, last evening. Mir Muybridge has been engaged during the past two years in making photographic representations of animals in motion, under the patronage of Gov Stanford, at the residence of the latter. at Menlo Park. Gov Stanford became great ly interested in the subject, and gratifed by the maiden efforts of Muybridge in photo graphing the movements of his favorite trotting- horse, Occident, he gave him carte blanche to pursue his experiments. A num- Der of instruments were constructed espe- cially for the purpose in Europe and this country, and at the Governors place, Palo Alta, every facility was afforded for carrying on his investigation, until finally by the combination of the magic lantern and the zoogyroscope he has arrived very nearly to perfection. It is estimated that Gov Stan ford has expended between 10000 and 5O,- GOO dollars in this hobby, as some of his friends term it.
 At the exhibition last evening large num- Der of views were given of the different gaits of horses-the walk, the canter, the pace, the trot, the run &c. The camera used in taking these views caught the object and transferred it to the glass in the one- | time that it is difficult for the mind to con- prehend. Stonehenge and other writers the horse have asserted that that quadruped in trotting as in walking always has two of it's feet upon the ground at a time. The experiments of Muybridge show that in mo- ton the horse frequently has three and at times all four feet from the ground. It has generally been held that the toe strikes the ground first. Muybridge shows that it is in all cases the heel. The strides of different horses were represented; that of Elaine, which covered 16 feet Abe Edgerton, Is feet, and Elay IT feet. The latter horse, Muybridge said, had very peculiar stride. When at the top of his speed and clearing IF feet, he was for nine feet entirely clear of the ground, all four feet being in the air for that distance. Several interesting views were given, showing the change in the posi- ton of a horse's limbs he began to break during the break and as he is grad ually settled by his driver. In the represen- tation of running horses a fact was shown that explained what had long been a mystery to horsemen; why running horses broke down sooner than trotting horses. It was found that the former throw the weight of their body upon the fore feet-in fact the whole weight is for time thrown upon one fore foot. In leaping, it was shown that one fore foot strikes the ground first followed by the other. placed slightly in advance, and then the hind feet are brought down together
 
 What attracted the most attention-in fact, aroused a pronounced futter of enthu- siasm from the audience, was the representa- tion, by aid of the zoogyroscope, of horses in motion. While the previous views had shown their positions at different stages of motion, these placed upon the screen appar- ently, the living, the moving horse Nothing was wanted but the chatter of the hoefs upon the turf and an occasional breath of steam from the nostrils to make the spectator be- lieve that he had before him genuine flesh and blood steeds In the views of hurdle leaping the stimulation was still more ad- mirable even to the motion of the tail as the animal gathered for the jump, the raising of his head, all were there. Views of an OK trotting, wild bull on the charge, grey hounds and deer running, and birds flying in mid-air were shown. The zoogyroscope is circular gloss, having miniature picture of the animal to be represented in motion at regular intervals upon it's surface, and equi- distant with these pictures are small slats which admit the light from the oxyhydrogen lanterns, and as the plate is turned the effect is similar to that produced by the well-known toy the zoetrope, and shows the animal in apparent actual motion. The exhibition concluded with number of fine instantane- ous photographic views of athletesi in various positions.