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.
Full Cast of Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer
Dean Stockwell
as Narrator
Robert Dean Stockwell (March 5, 1936 – November 7, 2021) was an American film, television and stage actor with a care...
- Released on September 28, 1975