Edwin Stanton Porter

...still having goals for becoming a successful playwright, went to New York and attempted to sell a script to Edison producer Edwin Porter. Porter rejected Griffith's script, but gave him an acting part in Rescued From An Eagle's Nest Finding...

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...1915 . Everson, calling Edison Studios "financially successful and artistically unambitious," wrote that other than directors Edwin S. Porter and John Hancock Collins, he Edison studios never turned out a notable director, or even one...

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...to the US, reveal her to be an unqualified pioneer whose work stands alongside that of the Lumiere Brothers, Georges Melies, and Edwin S. Porter, in cinema's rapid growth from an optical illusion to a storytelling medium to an art form.

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...Porter (April 21, 1870 - April 30, 1941) was an early film pioneer, most famous as a director with Thomas Edison's company. Edwin Porter was born in Connellsville, Pennsylvania to Thomas Richard Porter, a merchant, and Mary Jane (Clark)...

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Life of an American Fireman is a 1903 film by Edwin S. Porter. Depicting the rescue of a woman from a burning building, it is one of the earliest American narrative films. The film was long considered important for its unusual editing...

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...the end of the 19th century, British inventor William Friese-Greene secured a patent for a 3D movie process. In 1915 Edwin S. Porter, whose The Great Train Robbery had stoked the first great movie sensation a dozen years before, presented a...

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DVD rentals delivered to your home. Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter 1982) This hourlong documentary charts director Edwin S. Porter's career, chronicling how his inventive techniques influenced the art of...

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...its flesh-and-blood analogue and you might get something like The Great Train Robbery, directed by Edwin S. Porter, which appeared in 1903 and which is often cited as the first movie western. That description has been challenged by some...

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...up close the line that connects the painting and sculpture of Frederic Remington, the motion studies of Eadweard Muybridge and Edwin S. Porter's groundbreaking "Great Train Robbery" (which was shown at the Phillips last week). But as...

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...of film narrative. The camera is placed in front of the action and turned on. Clearly the imagination of Porter is limited to the stage; he still sees dramatic action happening in a box. There's really no sense of the cinema's ability to...

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