Show Jumping

The camera captures the sense of being part of the audience at this Victorian sporting event.

The camera is well placed in this film, capturing the sense of being part of the audience at this equestrian event. In 1877-8 Edward Muybridge used the young technology of photography to analyse a horse’s gait in his Animal Locomotion series. Here, less than 25 years later, film continues to photograph horses, but in the name of entertainment rather than science.