Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
5.7
60 minutes
10/9/1982
Overview
A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
Cast List
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 Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edwin S. Porter
as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)