Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

1975· 59 min★ 7.4· Documentary, History

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, Anje Bos, Sharon Hagen

Director: Thom Andersen