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Edwin S. Porter

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Born: April 21, 1870 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA

Biography

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 ...

Filmography2 TITLES
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
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Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter1982
Life of an American Fireman
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Life of an American Fireman1903
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