Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
Sep 28, 1975 | IMDB 7.2
59 min Watch NowDocumentary, History
Thom Andersen's remarkable and sadly neglected hour-long documentary adroitly combines biography, history, film theory, and philosophical reflection. Muybridge's photographic studies of animal locomotion in the 1870s were a major forerunner of movies; even more interesting are his subsequent studies of diverse people, photographed against neutral backgrounds.
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