Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer 1975

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.

Cast:

Dean Stockwell
Narrator (voice) 

Eadweard Muybridge
Self (archive footage) 

Anje Bos
Model 

Sharon Hagen
Model