Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
1982•1h•Dir. Charles Musser
5.7
DocumentaryA documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
Oct 9, 1982
1h
00Cast
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
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edwin S. Porter
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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