Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-11-23

The Difference Between AmbI;ug
Pacing. TrOtting and GalRoptnx.

From the New York Sun. November IT,
Professor Eadweard Muvbridge delivered
last evening. in the Turf Club Theater an ex-
eeedlngly interesting lecture upon the atti
tudcs Of animals In notion illustrating II bv
photographs made by instantaneous process
and by machine called ytbezoopraxiscope
which caused animals and h1.nan bsings Ter an
pear in actual motion BON the ssecsen In a
startngy life-like manag. lie explained first
the ingenious apparatus by WHICH these pictures
were made-a series of twenty-four cameras
each fitted with an electro exposer that exposed
the negative to the light for one five-thousandth
oil second when an animal in motion before it
broke thread and made the electric cOnnec-
ton
The series of pictures thus produced repre-
eented every movement of any animal for the
observation of which this apparatus was en-
ployed and revolutOniZed the old ideas of the
motions OF quadrupcds in their several gaits
especially Of those OF horses. 1t had been a
matter OF dispute whether the horse ever had
three feet on the ground at one time when
walking. These pictures settled that He AL
ways has two feet on the ground and part of
the time three the two feet being alternately
GiagOnas and laterals. Wherever a walking
horse Is supported on two feet and the sIls-
pended feet are inside. the suspended feet are
invariably on the same SIDE: where he Is sup
ported on two extended feet the suspended feet
inside are dagonals II horse drops the left
hind foot on the ground the next to follow will
be the lett fore foot followed by the rVbt hind
and finally by the right fore
Egyptian. AsSyrian and Roman pictures were
Shown to demonstrate that an erroneous idea
OF tins motion prevailed in the earliest attempts
st art. IL perpetuated i'm the famous
statue of Marcus Aurelius which has been the
model of almost all equestrian statues to the
present day and j. a. conspicuous in the eques-
TRAN statues of Washington In Boston and in
Union square Is in any OF the old Eryptian or
* mi Ia f.ra hnr
TO walk iii the way there depicted. MeissOner
had a correct idea of Il horses walk when he
painted his great Gture of Napoleon in 1914
but the critics ridic;pd it and pronounced Ii in
correct Now he has the satisfaction OF know
Ing that rs was right and they were all wrong.
Miss Thompson also was correct. and the critics
derded her for being Now the laugh is on
the other side.
A dozen pictures were next shown illustrative
OF horse ambllng. gait iii which he is never
altogether clear Of the ground, but is supported
alternately by one and two feet. the single foot
being alternately fore and hind foot and the
two feet alternately lateraIs and diagonas This
was best understood when actually represented
by the ZOOpraxiscOpe. and the demonstration
was so perfect as to elicit great applause from
the spectators.
The racking or pacing gait was next ampIy
Illustrated In it the horse moves the lateral
feet simultaneously instead of tic diagonal feet
as in the trOt- Then the trOt was shown In an
exhaustive series of photographs covering every
movement OF a trOttin1 horse. both at slow
and fast trOt In the latter the horse was at
one point in his stride entirely Oft the ground
the right fore and hind feet quite clear and the
Others not quite touching. In a fast trOt the
horse invariably puts the heel down first, never
the ball of the foot or tee
By All ingenious arrangement OF five cameras
nye pictures were successfully made simulta-
neOusly from different points of view for artists
use. OF horses in the several attitudes of motion
and several of these fOreshOrtened animals
when thrown upon the screen. were astcnish-
fngiy comic. however true TO nature they IN
QuestiOnably were.
The cantPr was next shown. in which during
portion of his stride the horse has three feet
on the ground and the fourth almost touching
IT, Then the gallOp was Illustrated. fast
horse gOin.- rapidly. Mr. Nuybridre said will
be in the air three times in single stride he
believed, but this was only his conieci ure argu-
Ing from the Illustrations he haG obtained.
The lecturer reverted again to ancient history
showing the old Egyptian and AsSyrian models
OF the running horse. models blindiy followed
by artists ever since-in which the animal is
presented posing himself On both hind feet ex-
tended far behind. with his fore feet stretched
far out ahead of him together. The North
American Indians had much more correct idea
Of the motion of a horse. was demonstrated
by their rude pictures upon buffalo robe that
Lafayette bought when in this country and took
back with him to Paris.
The horse rs he appears in jumping was the
subject of the final series of horse pictures and
afforded some of the most surprising and bril-
liant effects OF the ZOopraXiscOpe. In response
to a question OF an auditor as to whether the
horse in jumping got his power from his hind
legs, the lecturer replied that he undoubtedly
did; that he raised the front part of his body
with his fore legs and took his spring from his
hind legs in speaking of horses jumping, he
said that the horse of which some of these pic
lures were made had risen 10 feet in front of
feet inch hurdle. cleared it. and alighted IL
feet beyond it, In alighting from jump the
horse always lands first ON his fore feet, SO or 40
Inches apart
Following these pictures were a long series of
Illustrations of the various gaitS of oxen q wild
pull. Newfoundland dog. hound deer. goat and
hog In speaking of the motions of the ON Mr..
Muybrldge criticised Rosa BOnheur sharply
pointing out that in her picture OF three yOkes
or draught oxen labOrng she missed the natural
movements OF the beasts The goat runs like a
horse and the deer like the hound bounding
rather than running. In one part of the deer's
stride its attitude was very near to that which
artists have so long inaccurately made as that Of
the running horse.
Then there were MANY more instantaneous
photographs OF HaZael walking and running
and jumping; of athletes boxing turning plain
somersaults and twisting sOmersaults "Hazael
was very much aStOnished at the various atti-
tudes in which,he had unconsciously placed HIM
sell when jumping. remarked the lecturer
"And should think he " ould be" responded
voice from among the audience in the darkness
In tone OF conviction that set everybody
laughing. TIE pictures that astOnished HaZael
certainly did show him in wondrous series of
twists
Photographs OF pigeons and sea gu!ls in
night, beautiful pictures. with the birds in an
innnlte variety of positions. upon an exquisite
background of clouds. concluded the exhibition.
Renlarking upon them. the lecturer pointed out
Dirds that at the moment of being photographed
had their wings down below their bodies and
said that but two peoples had ever pictured
olrds IN that natural pOsitiOn-the Egyptians
and the japanese.
Another Great African
FROM the London Times.
The existence of another ennatnrinl IaLa In