Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982)

★ 6.1 (8) 1h 1982
Documentary

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

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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)

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