wheel occurs in the movie camera and in the movie projector. It 
is significant that this most subtle and complex grouping of 
wheels should have been invented in order to win a bet that all 
four feet of a running horse were sometimes off the ground 
simultaneously. This bet was made between the pioneer 
photographer Edward Muybridge and horse-owner Leland 
Stanford, in 1889. At first, a series of cameras were set up side 
by side, each to snap an arrested moment of the horse’s 
hooves in action. The movie camera and the projector were 
evolved from the idea of reconstructing mechanically the 
movement of feet. The wheel, that began as extended feet, 
took a great evolutionary step into the movie theatre.

     By an enormous speed-up of assembly-line segments, the 
movie camera rolls up the real world on a spool, to be unrolled 
and translated later onto the screen. That the movie re-creates