Muybridge’s defense talked about how his severe head injury had impacted his mental health. He was taken into custody and was calm the whole time while he was held.ĭuring the trial, most of the general public was on the side of Muybridge because they felt he had been wronged (Flora, however, was deeply saddened by the murder of her lover and filed for divorce). When Flora’s nurse revealed the truth to Muybridge, he traveled to find Larkyns, called him out, and shot him point-blank with a pistol, close to the heart. Eventually, Flora became pregnant with Larkyns’ child, a son. Muybridge became aware of the letters and warned Larkyns to leave his wife alone. Whenever Muybridge was away, the two would meet up and send letters. In her loneliness, Flora ended up taking up an affair with reporter Harry Larkyns. While he was affectionate towards his wife, Muybridge was away very frequently. In 1871 at the ripe age of 41 years old, Muybridge married 21-year-old divorcee Flora Shallcross Stone.
He began professional photography after suffering a serious head injury in a stagecoach incident, and created several patents for his inventions and developments of the technology. Muybridge is an interesting figure who is a part of both film and true crime history. However, what I’m interested in is Muybridge himself, who murdered his wife’s lover.
PHOTOS OF THE HORAE MOVIE
What is shown in Peele’s movie is a later animated version of these images. The series became the first example of chronophotography. It includes six cards that each show a sequential series of “automatic electro-photographs” depicting the motion of a horse. Horse is a series of cabinet cards or photographs by English photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Jordan Peele’s latest film, Nope, heavily references The Horse in Motion.
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