Edwin S. Porter
Directing
Birthday
1870/04/21
Day of death
1941/04/30 (71 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA
Also know as
Edwin Stratton Porter, Ed Porter, Edward Porter, 에드윈 S. 포터, 에드윈 포터
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 them, he helped to develop the modern concept of continuity editing, paving the way for D.W. Griffit...Read more
