Try going a week without movies or television.
Or, maybe try a day.

Now to take it a step further, imagine this: your exposure to moving images is basically zero.

Getting your mind cast in that frame will make the iconic photographic work of Eadweard Muybridge look like magic.

That’s how it seemed at the time.

In the 1870s, Muybridge was hired to use his photographic skills and ingenuity to settle an old argument. Without the aid of cameras, no one could tell if all four of a galloping horse’s hooves were ever off the ground all at once. Using numerous cameras placed along a pre-determined path, each lens was tripped to open as the animal ran past.

Moving pictures had not been invented. The ability to create a dynamic movement through still images allowed a whole new level of vision, understanding and insight; people could now see things that they otherwise could not.

The final verdict? Horses’ hooves do all leave the ground at one point in their gallop.