Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
1982/10/09 • Released • English
Overview
A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
Director : Charles Musser
Casts
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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