Documentary · United States of America · 1982 · 1h 0m

Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

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Director
Charles Musser
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 Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Synopsis

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

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