Bullet time, also known as frozen moment, dead time, flow motion, or time slice, is a visual effect that creates the illusion of time either slowing down or stopping, while the camera appears to move
Muybridge Animal Locomotion (1887) Plate 522. A 97, jumping; B 98, hand-spring; C 98, somersault; D 99, Somersault; E 99, spring over man's back
Albumen silver print photograph of Muybridge in 1872 at base of the Ulysses S. Grant tree "71 Feet in Circumference" in the Mariposa Grove, Yosemite, by Carleton Watkins