Before this, however, there was 1878's Sallie Gardner at a Gallop by Eadweard Muybridge. The English photographer set up 24 cameras to take photos one after the other while a horse galloped in ...

Sallie Gardner was the world's first movie star. Her graceful debut in 1878 launched cinema itself, though she was only six years old. Sallie, you see, happened to be the Thoroughbred horse that ...

Stanford's horse, Sallie Gardner, was ridden past the cameras, breaking the threads and tripping the shutters. The resulting image sequence, "Sallie Gardner at a Gallop", was the first to be ...

What’s widely considered the first film—Eadweard Muybridge’s 1878 Sallie Gardner at a Gallop—featured just horse and man. Donkeys aren’t absent from stories, though.

I noticed a small inaccuracy in the March 2005 article "X-ray Blaze on an Invisible World." Horse people among your readers will instantly recognize that the horse in the photograph "Sallie Gardner" ...