Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
Documentary
★ 6.1/1019821h 0mG
Director: Charles Musser
A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
Runtime
1h 0m
Language
English
Released
Oct 9, 1982
Runtime
1h 0m
Language
English
Released
Oct 9, 1982
Cast
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
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edwin S. Porter
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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