The story of the bet of Leland Stanford , baron of the rail, on the gallop of the horse. He uses the photographer Eadweard Muybridge , who is developing a system to analyze the movement.

A surreal tribute to Muybridge, one of the early pioneers of the motion picture.

A tribute film in honor of the zoopraxiscope inventor Eadweard Muybridge.

Succession of small sequences, kind of a homage to chronophotography and to the pre-cinema experiences.

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.