Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
1982
⏱️ 60 min
📅 Released
🌐 EN
Documentary
A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
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Cast
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)
Crew
Director
Charles Musser