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DVD

Eadweard Muybridge, zoopraxographer

Call Number

  • DVD 921 M993EA (CEN)

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Languages

Closed-captioned.

Publication Information

[New York] : Cinema Guild, [2016]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (59 minutes) : sound, black and white with color sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (10 pages ; 18 cm)

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

A fascinating investigation into the work of photographer and cinema pioneer Eadweard Muybridge, Thom Andersen's documentary incorporates a biographical overview of its subject with a re-animation of his historic sequential photographs. Newly restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer discusses his early experiments in landscape photography as well as providing background information on his subjects. Assisted by filmmaker Morgan Fisher, Andersen re-photographed and then animated more than 3,000 of Muybridge's sequential images, giving new life to the experiments. Narrated by Dean Stockwell, Andersen's documentary is that rare feat of filmmaking as film criticism, an investigation into cinema's primordial years that connects the medium's invention to the broader history of Western representation.

Notes

Originally produced in 1975.

"Restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive from the original 16mm color reversal A/B rolls and the original 16mm fullcoat magnetic soundtrack"--Page 10 of accompanying booklet.

Special feature: Theatrical trailer.

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