Marta Braun
Retired director of photographic and film preservation and an expert in 19th-century motion photography, providing historical context and analysis of Eadweard Muybridge's work.
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Mar 22, 2026 • 26min
A horse race and a murderer invented cinema
Marta Braun, retired director of photographic and film preservation and expert in 19th-century motion photography, guides a vivid history of Eadweard Muybridge. She traces his reinventions from bookseller to pioneering motion photographer. Listens cover his Yosemite work, the twelve-camera setup that proved the “flying” horse, the zoopraxiscope projector, legal battles over credit, and a shocking murder trial.
