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The Emperor of Time

Drew Christie · USA · Documentary / Crime · 6 min · ♥︎ 2.9K

Directed by Drew Christie · Starring India'yolanda Collins, Richard Evans, Hugh Ross · 2016

An animated account of Eadweard Muybridge, the eccentric photographer whose studies of a galloping horse helped give birth to motion pictures, and whose private life was far stranger and darker.

A witty, handcrafted history lesson on the scandal-filled life of the man who accidentally invented the movies.

The strange and sordid tale of Eadweard Muybridge, the man who accidentally invented motion pictures.

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