Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

• Cast: Dean Stockwell, Eadweard Muybridge, Anje Bos, Sharon Hagen
• Duration: 59 minutes
• Genre: Documentary, History
• Rating: 7.2/10
• Release Date: 1975-09-28

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.