Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
1982A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
Acted in
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)