"Buffalo Running" is a really short American film from 1883, so the very very early days of cinema and for this one here, director Eadweard Muybridge in his early 50s gives us a majestic male buffalo and uses several photographs of him to make one of the earliest motion pictures in history. Think of stuff like this one when you complain about insufficien frames per second the next time. It is a black-and-white silent film of course, but as this one has its 135th anniversary this year, this is of course self-explanatory. Maybe my fellow animal (documentary) lovers will enjoy this one more than the rest, but let me say that in the end it is really just interesting from a historic perspective, not from a cineatic. I hope the buffalo we see in here led a long and happy life after this one here (that's the only way he should get shot!) as you could say he somehow was an early animal star in film history. Still, I give this movie a thubs-down overall, definitely not for most audiences.
Review of Buffalo Running
