Eadweard Muybridge went down to his bare skin in "Athlete Swinging a Pick" (1881) in order to show the full force of a human being that can be achieved through movement. Combining physiology and myth, this is also a first attempt at exposing how the camera can fake reality into fiction.

In time, "Man Walking Around the Corner" (1887) stays as just one simple, yet ambitious, experiment. Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince's 16-lens camera is a significant milestone towards the discovery of film, and its output is without question an important artifact in the archaeology of cinema.