Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

6.1 1982 60 min
G
Documentary

A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.

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Director
Charles Musser
Classification
G

Cast

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Blanche Sweet Narrator (voice)
D. A. Pennebaker Reader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice)
Miloš Forman Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)
Louis Malle Reader - Melies Catalogue (voice)
Robert Altman Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice)
Thomas A. Edison Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edwin S. Porter Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

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