PHILADELPHIA — With "Nope" now in theaters, it looks like director Jordan Peele has yet another hit on his hands, following the massive success of "Get Out" and "Us." While we expected Peele's latest directorial effort to be good, we didn't expect to find a Philadelphia connection to the movie.
But, sure enough, there is one in Eadweard Muybridge, a photographer who worked in partnership with the University of Pennsylvania in the late 1800s.
Muybridge is considered one of the founding fathers of motion pictures thanks in part to a GIF-like clip of a man riding horse that has come to be known as "The Horse in Motion," otherwise called "Sallie Gardner at a Gallop." Created as a series of photos in 1878, the work gained motion (literally) with Muybridge's invention of the zoopraxiscope, a primitive predecessor of the modern movie projector.
