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Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
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Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

1982
Directed byCharles Musser
1h 0m

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

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Blanche SweetNarrator (voice)D. A. PennebakerReader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice)Miloš FormanReader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)

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Louis Malle
Reader - Melies Catalogue (voice)
Robert AltmanReader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice)
Thomas A. EdisonHimself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edwin S. PorterHimself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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STATUSReleased
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