Eadweard Muybridge’s Motion Study, Horse and Rider, recently made a memorable cameo appearance in Jordan Peele’s science-fiction horror film, Nope. One of the main characters in the film, Emerald, contends that her great-great-great-grandfather is the rider pictured atop the galloping horse. Importantly, Muybridge’s assembly of photographs show that which was previously unseen – each moment of a horse’s gallop, specifically the instance when all four legs are airborne. Similarly, the plot of Nope centers on capturing documentation of an evasive, otherworldly entity. Muybridge’s attempt to render the enigmatic into a tangible representation is highly relevant to the film's plot.