In 1874, the father of motion pictures stood trial for murder. Most people know Eadweard Muybridge as a pioneering photographer and inventor whose work sparked the birth of movies. But Muybridge had a dark side: he was once accused on murdering his wife's lover. Would a Western jury, comfortable with the idea of taking justice into one's own hands, let Muybridge get away with it?
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05/20/24 • 71 min
History on Trial - The Motion Picture Murder
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You're listening to History on Trial, a production of iHeart Podcasts. Listener discretion advised. On May fourth, eighteen eighty a crowd gathered at the Art Association on Pine Street in San Francisco.
Speaker 1They dutifully paid the fifty cent admission fee, filed into the gallery room, and took their seats. They had been drawn in by a newspaper advertisement that promised a show unlike any other,
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