Eadweard Muybridge

A special display of research materials on Muybridge and the illusion of motion. 15 to 26 November 2004.

Eadweard Muybridge's motion studies were significant in the development of moving images. Come and explore his contribution to the transition from photography to the moving image.

Visit our reading room and take a closer look at some of the rarely-seen items in our Muybridge collection:

• Browse his publications on animal and human locomotion
• Find out what zoopraxography is all about
• Read about his life, his work and his travels.

The Cinema: Motion-Illusion-Spectacle conference to mark the centenary of Muybridge's death was on at the National Film Theatre from November 26 to 28.

Related links

Muybridge - a reading list

A list of books on Muybridge and early photography, available at the bfi National Library.

Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Culture's website

The CRFAC at Roehampton is presenting the Cinema: Motion-Illusion-Spectacle conference, together with the NFT.

National Museum of American History

Freeze Frame: A Smithsonian Virtual Exhibition examining Muybridge's pioneering work.

Unofficial MOMI/Muybridge

Unofficial website aiming to "maintain an educational resource covering the subjects of Pre-Cinema and Early Film, inspired by the original Museum of the Moving Image, which was situated beneath Waterloo Bridge in London, 1988-1999".

Bill Douglas Centre

The centre's pages on Muybridge and the history of the moving pictures.