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Eadweard Muybridge, “Tennis Player”
These images are from pioneering motion-picture maker Eadweard Muybridge’s historically significant ‘Animal Locomotion’ study done in 1877 and 1878. Multiple stop-motion images were taken with cameras and projected for viewing with a zoopraziscope, an early device used in cinematography that predated the perforated flexible film strip. Ten photographs were compiled and put into a zoetrope format to create the movement of the nude man playing tennis.
The Wolf Man, 1941 Trailer
After teasing his friends for believing in werewolves, Larry (Lon Chaney Jr.) is promptly bitten by a rabid wolf and faints. Horror superstars share the screen when Larry wakes to find a gypsy (Bela Lugosi) who moonlights as a werewolf. Cursed by the werewolf’s bite, Larry suffers torturous full-moon transformations and tries to escape the townsfolk who hunt him. Claude Rains, Evelyn Ankers and Ralph Bellamy also star in this film.