Running Out of Time: Eadweard Muybridge, 'Buffalo Running', and Cinema's First Act of Conservation Running Out of Time: Eadweard Muybridge, 'Buffalo Running', and Cinema's First Act of Conservation
Running Out of Time: Eadweard Muybridge, 'Buffalo Running', and Cinema's First Act of Conservation When Eadweard Muybridge trained his cameras on a buffalo in 1883, the species had already been reduced from sixty million to a few thousand. ‘Buffalo Running’ is no mere scientific record, it is cinema's earliest act of ecological conscience. In immortalising this noble beast at the edge of extinction, Muybridge laid the foundations of wildlife documentary film and changed forever the role of the moving image.