Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975)
Directed by Thom Andersen · 59 min · Documentary, History
4.2 TOPICAL score · #6,266 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →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.
Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer (1975, directed by Thom Andersen) has a TOPICAL score of 4.2 - ranked 6,266 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on cast and historical impact, and lowest on awards. Audiences: TMDB 7.3/10 (19 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 4 languages, and the Library of Congress chose it for the National Film Registry.
Why this score
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- AudienceTMDB 7.3/10 (19 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 0 nominations
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 4 languages · National Film Registry
- Still read373 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Dean Stockwell (actor #882), Anje Bos, Sharon Hagen
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