Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter poster
Movie198260 minReleasedUS G

Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

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

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60 min
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Blanche Sweet

Narrator (voice)

#2

D. A. Pennebaker

Reader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice)

#3

Miloš Forman

Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)

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Louis Malle

Reader - Melies Catalogue (voice)

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Robert Altman

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

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Thomas A. Edison

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Edwin S. Porter

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Charles Musser

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