You can think of high-speed photography as having its genesis with Eadweard Muybridge's series of shots of a galloping horse in 1878 that proved the steed did indeed have all of its hooves off the ground simultaneously at a point in its stride. To film that famous shot Muybridge used a series of cameras triggered sequentially. The photos were later displayed either via a spinning disk or like a strip of film.
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