The Emperor of Time

The strange and sordid tale of Eadweard Muybridge, the man who accidentally invented motion pictures. The film is told from the point of view of Muybridge's abandoned son and viewed completely through a nineteenth century early cinema contraption called a mutoscope.

Eadweard Muybridge

A fantastic documentary on one of the key people in the history of cinema. A portrait of the pioneering photographer, forefather of cinema, showman and murderer Eadweard Muybridge. Born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Muybridge did his most famous work in California, where his experiments in early cinema, and the public projection of his images, using a machine he invented, astounded audiences worldwide.
     Learn all about the life and work of this eccentric, name changing, English photographer who once killed his cheating wife’s lover—and got acquitted. Born Edward James Muggeridge, he emigrated to the U.S. in 1855, a time when the country was in the process of being built from the ground up. The Old West was a prime place for an adventurous young man who set out to make a name for himself. And indeed he did.