1975
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
Documentary, History
8.0
User Score
16 Votes
Status
Released
Language
en
Budget
$0
Production
University of California Los Angeles
Overview
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.
