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Vor einem Tag · Edwin Porter's 1902 film The Life of an American Fireman represented the first step toward the modern conception of cinematic montage. Porter exploited imagery of fire—one of the most popular subjects of early cinema—and built a film around various scenes of fires and firemen while adding some additional material of his own. From this, he constructed a dramatic film that is little-known ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Silent. The White Caps is a 1905 American silent drama film, directed by Wallace McCutcheon and Edwin S. Porter showing how a man abusing his wife is punished by a group of white-hooded men. It is one of the first American films exposing conjugal violence against women and showing the action of vigilante groups. [1]
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Vor 5 Tagen · The film was directed by Edwin S. Porter and involved J. Stuart Blackton of Vitagraph as Happy Hooligan and, likely, the mastermind behind the film’s double exposure special effect. A panoramic shot of the city was made with the top of the lens covered and then the airship was shot with the bottom covered. This created an illusion of the tramp floating high above the city, though the effect ...
Vor 4 Tagen · 2 mins. "Weary Willie" Kisses the Bride is a surviving 1904 silent comedy short film produced by Thomas Edison and directed by Edwin S. Porter and preserved from a paper print in the Library of Congress. [1] The film was copyrighted as Nervy Nat Kisses the Bride, but sold as "Weary Willie". [2] Another 1904 Porter short was released called ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Cinema, the art form without which most of us can hardly imagine our lives, is the fruit of centuries of experimentation, development and wandering through technological paradigms. The story of its creation is a fascinating odyssey spanning centuries and continents. The following article presents the key stages of the early stages of cinema, from the […]
Ray Phillips, Edison's Kinetoscope and its Films – a History to 1896 (Flicks Books,UK, 1997) Charles Musser, The Emergence of Cinema: the American Screen to 1907 (Charles Scribner's Sons, USA, 1990) Charles Musser, Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company (University of California Press, USA, 1991)
Vor 5 Tagen · With the invention of the film projector and the advent of theaters dedicated to showing movies—dubbed “nickelodeons” because admission was five cents—cinema in America picked up steam. Films got longer and began to tell stories. In 1903, Edwin S. Porter produced and directed the first narrative Western film,
