Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

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..

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Overview

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
Dean Stockwell
Narrator (voice)
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge
Self (archive footage)
Anje Bos
Anje Bos
Model
Sharon Hagen
Sharon Hagen
Model

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Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer -- Marriage Story

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