Top 2 Best Films of 1878

1. Sallie Gardner at a Gallop
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.



2. The Musician Monkey [Le singe musicien]
Director: Émile Reynaud
France (formerly French Republic) | Western Europe | Europe
1878 | 1870s | 19th Century

Émile Reynaud's animated work predates the successes in moving photography. "The Musician Monkey" (1878) is charming and simultaneously creepy in its visuals, nonetheless through its movement it announced to the world that pictures were no longer still.

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