Top 4 Best Films from Northern America
- Sallie Gardner at a Gallop Director: Eadweard Muybridge
- Buffalo Running Director: Eadweard Muybridge
- Child Bringing Bouquet to Woman Director: Eadweard Muybridge
- Skeleton of Horse Director: Eadweard Muybridge
United States (currently United States of America) | Northern America | North America
1878 | 1870s | 19th Century
Eadweard Muybridge's ""Sallie Gardner at a Gallop"" (1878) invites us for multiple repeated viewings, just as the inventor intended using the zoopraxiscope. The first successful recording of movement is a seminal moment in the history of cinema, whose legacy is unsurpassed to this day.
![Buffalo Running (1883) Buffalo Running (1883).png](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/5e7e4e9b6ea7d523feb7d768/69bff64e-ec52-4616-ba8e-571e25b2f8a7/Buffalo+Running+%281883%29.png?format=1500w&content-type=image%2Fpng)
United States (currently United States of America) | Northern America | North America
1883 | 1880s | 19th Century
The first nature documentary is the unassuming "Buffalo Running" (1883), directed by the grandfather of cinema, Eadweard Muybridge. The language of the unintrusive gaze is invented here to celebrate a life void of human beings, a chimera of a world beaming with beauty.
![Child Bringing Bouquet to Woman (1887) Child Bringing Bouquet to Woman (1887).png](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/5e7e4e9b6ea7d523feb7d768/c68bbedb-c7b0-4970-b8fd-731aa013b4e3/Child+Bringing+Bouquet+to+Woman+%281887%29.png?format=1500w&content-type=image%2Fpng)
United States (currently United States of America) | Northern America | North America
1887 | 1880s | 19th Century
Eadweard Muybridge must have been far more interested in artistic representation rather than science when shooting "Child Bringing Bouquet to Woman" (1887). Granted there is movement, but the warmth of emotions is telling in this rare proto-cinematic attempt at story writing.
![Skeleton of Horse (1881) Skeleton of Horse (1881).png](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/5e7e4e9b6ea7d523feb7d768/3d1da79b-cbfb-46d5-b230-9ab55b7bc143/Skeleton+of+Horse+%281881%29.png?format=1500w&content-type=image%2Fpng)
United States (currently United States of America) | Northern America | North America
1881 | 1880s | 19th Century
Potentially the earliest work of stop-action animation, Eadweard Muybridge's "Skeleton of Horse" (1881) entices us to the art with its elaborate attention to detail and crisp imagery – a beautiful reminder of the painstaking efforts of the scientists working on moving photography in the 19th century.
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