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The authorities and biographers of Edwin S. Porter, emphasizing his technique and contributions to the art of the cinema. A documentary on the origins of the American cinema; Porter's work is ...
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 ...
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 ...
8. Juni 2018 · Edwin S. Porter (1870-1941) was a prominent innovator in the early years of cinema. He worked collaboratively, producing, directing, and editing a variety of films, including the first blockbuster motion picture, The Great Train Robbery in 1903. Edwin Stratton Porter grew up in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, a small manufacturing town famous for ...
The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter. 1. Origins to 1928. 2. Origins to 1914. Charles Musser, Charles Musser. Search for more papers by this author. Charles Musser, Charles Musser ...
13. Nov. 2011 · It might seem an indulgence to have an essay reprinted that is now more than 30 years old, but “The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter” has the virtue of raising basic issues that remain part of the debates still swirling around cinema of the early 1900s. Not only does it stand up in most of its essentials, but this effort also retains a freshness (a sense of working through a problem for the ...
This volume also serves as a companion to the documentary film Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter. All the quotations used in the documentary appear in this volume with the appropriate references. A finding aid for these appears in appendix C. In a few cases, recent research has uncovered new information that has made ...
