Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

Storyline

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.

• Released

  1975

• Runtime

  59min

• Director

  Thom Andersen

Genre

DocumentaryHistory

• Status

  Released

• Language

  English

• Production

  University of California Los Angeles