Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982)
A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
- Released
- 1982-10-09
- Genres
- Documentary
- Runtime
- 60 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Charles Musser
- TMDB rating
- 6.1/10 from 8 votes
Cast
- Blanche Sweet as Narrator (voice)
- D. A. Pennebaker as Reader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice)
- Miloš Forman as Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)
- Louis Malle as Reader - Melies Catalogue (voice)
- Robert Altman as Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice)
- Thomas A. Edison as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Edwin S. Porter as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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