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Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

1975 59m

7.2 / 10

17 votes

  • Documentary
  • History

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.