Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

*7.2

Status

Released

Production

University of California Los Angeles

Aired

1975-09-28

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.