It’s no exaggeration to state that much of the history of film’s technological development has been driven by attempts to capture the habits of animals. The photographer Eadweard Muybridge laid the foundations of modern cinema in 1873, when he created a method of sequential photography to discover whether the four legs of a galloping horse ever become airborne (supposedly to settle a bet; all...
The tech behind Our Planet, David Attenborough’s first Netflix show
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