About the Program
National Book Award-winning author Edward Ball recounts the relationship between Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904) inventor of stop-motion photography that was integral in the development of motion pictures and his patron, Leland Stanford, former governor of California and railroad tycoon. The author reports on Muybridge's technological breakthroughs and his personal life, notably his admission of murder and his court trial that became a national curiosity. Edward Ball speaks at R.J. Julia Booksellers in Madison, Connecticut.