Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer offers interactive tools beyond traditional movie databases:
Documentary, History · 7.2/10 · 59 min · 1975
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.