Top 2 Best Films from United Kingdom
- Athlete Swinging a Pick Director: Eadweard Muybridge
- Man Walking Around the Corner Director: Louis Le Prince
United Kingdom (formerly United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) | Northern Europe | Europe
1881 | 1880s | 19th Century
Eadweard Muybridge went down to his bare skin in "Athlete Swinging a Pick" (1881) in order to show the full force of a human being that can be achieved through movement. Combining physiology and myth, this is also a first attempt at exposing how the camera can fake reality into fiction.
![Man Walking Around the Corner (1887) Man Walking Around the Corner (1887).png](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/5e7e4e9b6ea7d523feb7d768/0e8dcdbb-1897-4754-be65-fd458f4bc9de/Man+Walking+Around+the+Corner+%281887%29.png?format=1500w&content-type=image%2Fpng)
United Kingdom (formerly United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland) | Northern Europe | Europe
1887 | 1880s | 19th Century
In time, "Man Walking Around the Corner" (1887) stays as just one simple, yet ambitious, experiment. Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince's 16-lens camera is a significant milestone towards the discovery of film, and its output is without question an important artifact in the archaeology of cinema.
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