Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975)

7.3/10 • 59 min • Documentary History

Overview

Thom Andersen's 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.

Cast

Dean Stockwell

Narrator (voice)

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