Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
9/29/1975
Imdb: tt0071454
Tmdb: 123092
Popularity: 2.429
Vote: 7.2/10 (16)

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.