Eadweard Muybridge:

Muybridge was the man who famously proved a horse can fly. Adapting the very latest technology to his ends, he proved his theory by getting a galloping horse to trigger the shutters of a bank of cameras. This experiment proved indisputably for the first time what no eye had previously seen – that a horse lifts all four hooves off the ground at one point in the action of running. Seeking a means of sharing his ground-breaking work, he invented the zoopraxiscope, a method of projecting animated versions of his photographs as short moving sequences, which anticipated subsequent developments in the history of cinema.


Sequence of a horse jumping by Eadweard Muybridge (d.1904)

Eadweard Muybrideg:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eadweard_Muybridge

Eadweard Muybrideg: Animated race horse
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/dd/Muybridge_race_horse_animated.gif

Tate Britain: Eadweard Muybridge Exhibition
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/eadweardmuybridge/default.shtm


Bullet Time:

Bullet time is a special and visual effect that refers to a digitally-enhanced simulation of variable-speed (i.e. slow motion, time-lapse, etc) photography used in films, broadcast advertisements, and video games.

It is characterized both by its extreme transformation of time (slow enough to show normally imperceptible and unfilmable events, such as flying bullets) and space (by way of the ability of the camera angle—the audience's point-of-view—to move around the scene at a normal speed while events are slowed).

This is almost impossible with conventional slow-motion, as the physical camera would have to move impossibly fast; the concept implies that only a "virtual camera", often illustrated within the confines of a computer-generated environment such as a virtual world or virtual reality, would be capable of "filming" bullet-time types of moments.


The Matrix: 2009

Bullet Time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_time

The Matrix:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Matrix

Michel gondry: Smirnoff
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SdlAXq45VY