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Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

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

Top Cast

  • Blanche Sweet

    Blanche Sweet

    Narrator (voice)

  • D. A. Pennebaker

    D. A. Pennebaker

    Reader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice)

  • Miloš Forman

    Miloš Forman

    Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)

  • Louis Malle

    Louis Malle

    Reader - Melies Catalogue (voice)

  • Robert Altman

    Robert Altman

    Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice)

  • Thomas A. Edison

    Thomas A. Edison

    Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

  • Edwin S. Porter

    Edwin S. Porter

    Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Overview

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

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