Plate Number 661. Mule; A, B, a refractory animal, Ruth 1887

"Plate Number 661. Mule; A, B, a refractory animal, Ruth" is a photographic sequence from Eadweard Muybridge's groundbreaking study of animal locomotion, created in 1887. This series captures the motion of a mule bucking its rider, "Ruth," in a grid of twenty-four individual frames, a technique that Muybridge pioneered using multiple cameras triggered by tripwires. Muybridge's photographic studies, often featuring horses, revolutionized the understanding of movement and contributed significantly to the development of cinema.