Los Altos resident Dr. Ron Rosenfeld is scheduled to present a reading of his third play, “Helios,” 1 p.m. Tuesday at the Oshman Family Jewish Community Center in Palo Alto.
The retired pediatrics specialist said the play was inspired by Eadweard Muybridge’s innovation of motion-picture projection in the late 1800s. A photographer, Muybridge was hired by Leland Stanford to answer the popularly debated question of the day – whether all four feet of a trotting horse were off the ground at the same time. He proved that they were by setting up a series of cameras around a racetrack, then putting the images on a rotating cylinder to create one of the earliest movie projectors.
