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

GOctober 9, 19821h

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Overview

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

Director: Charles Musser

Top Billed 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)

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Robert Altman

Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice)

Thomas A. Edison

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Edwin S. Porter

Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Status: Released
Original title: Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
Original language: English