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The following is a list of films by Edwin S. Porter, head producer at the Edison Manufacturing Company owned by Thomas A. Edison, between 1900 and 1909. Later films were produced at the Rex Motion Picture Company and Famous Players Film Company.
Edwin Stanton Porter (April 21, 1870 – April 30, 1941) was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company.
Influenced by both the "Brighton school" and the story films of Georges Méliès, Porter went on to make important shorts such as Life of an American Fireman (1903) and The Great Train Robbery (1903).
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- Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA
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- New York City, New York, USA
Edwin S. Porter was a pioneer American film director whose innovative use of dramatic editing (piecing together scenes shot at different times and places) in such films as The Life of An American Fireman (1903) and The Great Train Robbery (1903) revolutionized filmmaking.
E. Edwin S. Porter filmography. The Eternal City (1915 film) The European Rest Cure. Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison.
"The Great Train Robbery", "The Night Before Christmas", "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend", "Life of an American Fireman", & "The Gay Shoe Clerk" are on The Best Movies Directed by Edwin S. Porter on Flickchart.
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