''Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer'' is a 1975 student
documentary film
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
directed by
Thom Andersen about the English photographer
Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge ( ; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture Movie projector, projection.
He ...
.
Legacy
In 2015, the United States
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law o ...
selected the film for preservation in the
National Film Registry
The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) collection of films selected for preservation (library and archival science), preservation, each selected for its cultural, historical, and aestheti ...
, finding it "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Newly restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, it was released on home video in 2016 by Cinema Guild.
Cast
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Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge ( ; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture Movie projector, projection.
He ...
as Himself
*
Dean Stockwell
Robert Dean Stockwell (March 5, 1936 – November 7, 2021) was an American actor with a film and television career that spanned seven decades. As a child actor under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he appeared in '' Anchors Aweigh'' (1945), '' ...
as Narrator
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See also
* List of American films of 1975
This is a list of American films released in 1975.
Box office
The highest-grossing American films released in 1975, by domestic box office gross revenue as estimated by '' The Numbers'', are as follows:
January–March
April–June
Jul ...
* ''Eadweard'' (film)
* '' Los Angeles Plays Itself''
References
External links
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''Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer'' essay by Joseph Sgammato at Senses of Cinema
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1975 films
1975 documentary films
American documentary films
Films directed by Thom Andersen
Documentary films about photographers
United States National Film Registry films
Essays about film
American student films
1970s English-language films
1970s American films
English-language documentary films