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Edwin Stanton Porter (April 21, 1870 – April 30, 1941) was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company. [1] [2] Of over 250 films created by Porter, his most important include What Happened on Twenty-third Street ...
Before the Nickelodeon Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company Charles Musser UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley · Los Angeles · Oxford
22. Sept. 2009 · Charles Silver, a curator in MoMA’s Department of Film, presents a series of writings to supplement the film exhibition An Auteurist History of Film. The following post accompanies the "A Portrait of Edwin S. Porter" program, which screens September 23, 24, and 25 in MoMA’s Celeste Bartos Theater (Theater 3). The Great Train Robbery. 1903.
1. Jan. 1991 · He went on to produce and direct the prize-winning An American Potter (1976) and Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982), which premiered at the New York Film Festival. He taught the first university-level course devoted to filmmaker Errol Morris and went on to make a feature-length documentary portrait: Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch (with Carina Tautu, 2012). His ...
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A portrait of film producer Edwin S. Porter. Spotlights the years 1894 to 1908. Includes hand-tinted stills and segments from Porter's movies and those of other filmmakers <style> div.javascriptErrorPage { background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.3); width: 100%; t ...
Summary: Between the years 1894 to 1908, Edwin S. Porter was the leading American filmmaker. Follows his movie career, from his first job installing Thomas Edison's Vitascope machines in New York, through his business as a film exhibitor, to his job as head of Edison's movie studio. There he created story films: Jack and the Beanstalk, The Life of an American Fireman, and The Great Train ...
Before the Nickelodeon is Charles Musser's documentary on filmmaker Edwin S. Porter. With little information on Porter's personal life known, the focus becomes about his work - made in the employ of Edison Studios. This creates a highly informative, tight, and Americancentric view of early motion pictures - giving just enough information to put Porter's role in context. Sit-down interviews are ...
