Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
(1975-09-28)
1975-09-28 • DocumentaryHistory • 59m
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975-09-28)
1975-09-28 • DocumentaryHistory • 59m
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.
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.
