Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
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.
- genus: Documentary, History
- Studio: University of California Los Angeles
- keyword: technology, photography, biography
- cast: Dean Stockwell, Eadweard Muybridge, Anje Bos, Sharon Hagen
