Edwin S. Porter

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Edwin Stanton Porter 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. Influenced by both the "Brighton school" and the story films of Georges Méliès, Porter went on to make important shorts such as Life of an American Fireman (1903) and The Great Train Robbery (1903). In ...

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Birthday: April 21, 1870

Passed: April 30, 1941

Place of Birth: Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA

Also Known As: Edwin Stratton Porter, Ed Porter, Edward Porter

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

Before the Nickelode...

1982

5.7

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning house. But wait, she tells them of her child yet asleep in the burning bedroom...

Life of an American ...

1903

6.0

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