Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

Name: Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
Director: Thom Andersen
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 1975-09-28
Duration: 59 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Dean Stockwell, Eadweard Muybridge, Anje Bos, Sharon Hagen

Directed by Thom Andersen

Documentary

History

19750h 59m7.2

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.