EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE, ZOOPRAXOGRAPHER

Directed by Thom Andersen

1975 / 59min

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.