Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer

Story Line

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.

Top Cast

Dean Stockwell

Narrator (voice)

Eadweard Muybridge

Self (archive footage)

Anje Bos

Model

Sharon Hagen

Model