"If the early work of Eedward Muybridge a decade before captured a galloping rider, and Louis le Prince later edged forward by focusing on people and street scenes, Ottomar Anschutz is perhaps the first photographer to capture similar images in a decent photographic quality, a much clearer vision of a Prussian soldier galloping a horse over an obstacle, and equally several Olympian looking sportsmen in training. The images are much clearer and sharp, despite being short.
A small but important addition to the edging forward of motion picture technology." Review by AJ Black
Brighton Street Scene, a lost film directed by William Friese-Greene.
Le Prince was a French artist and inventor of the motion picture camera, being the first person to shoot a moving picture sequence using a single lens camera and a strip of (paper) film. He was never able to perform a planned public demonstration in the US because he mysteriously vanished from a train on September 16, 1890.
