Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

Release Date: 1975-09-28

Runtime: 59

Languages: English

Rating: 7.2

Votes: 17

Genres: Documentary | History

Director: Thom Andersen

Description: 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 locomot...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.Read More

Production Companies:

University of California Los Angeles