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Le Cheval de fer
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Le Cheval de fer ("The Iron Horse") is a 1984 animated short film (seven minutes) from Belgium, directed by Gerald Frydman.The title is an old name for the Transcontinental Railroad (see John Ford's film The Iron Horse), but despite an introductory montage showing the construction of the railroad, the bulk of the film is about flesh-and-blood horses. It's set about ten years after the two halves of the railroad met at Promontory Point in Utah in 1869. Leland Stanford, bigwig of the Central Pacific Railroad (the western half coming out of California) has made a bet. Stanford has wagered his friends that a galloping horse sometimes has only one hoof on the ground, while his buddies insist that a horse always has at least two hooves on the ground. But the human eye is incapable of telling, so, how to resolve the wager?Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Stanford engages the services of landscape photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Muybridge attempts to snap a photo of a horse in motion, but his picture is too blurry. The photographer is stumped, until he sees Stanford chop the tip off a cigar, which gives him an idea...which eventually leads to motion pictures. | |
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Blowing Smoke Rings: A self-assured Leland Stanford does this while placing his wager with his friends. | |
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Artistic License – History: Well, it's a cartoon. Stanford's bet was that a horse actually got all four feet in the air during a gallop, losing all contact with the ground. Muybridge didn't take inspiration from a guillotine to rig up a system of camera shutters on strings that Muybridge held. He actually went straight to the tripwire idea. Although it's commonly believed that Stanford had made a bet about how horses gallop, there's no direct evidence of this. | |
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