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  1. 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.

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  3. 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. Porter coinvented a device.

  4. The pioneer U.S. film director Edwin S. Porter revolutionized filmmaking by inventing the technique of dramatic editing (piecing together scenes shot at different times and places). After immigrating to the United States from Scotland, Porter worked as a mechanic.

  5. Jun 8, 2018 · While at the Edison Company, Porter perfected a number of techniques that became standard film practice, including the close-up of an actor's face and the dissolve from one scene to the next. Both of these techniques, which were borrowed from the early magic lantern shows that predated cinema, became hallmarks of the Edison studios.

  6. Dec 16, 2023 · The story of Edwin S. Porter, the man who invented 3D, and changed cinema forever. Read about the extensive history of the technique here.

  7. Jun 24, 2012 · The Cutting Edge traces the beauty of editing all the way to Edwin S. Porter, who introduced inter-cutting with The Life of an American Fireman in 1903 by crosscutting a fire and the firemen on their way to put it out.

  8. Sep 22, 2009 · As Musser’s film explains, Edwin S. Porter was a kind of jack-of-all-trades who accidentally stumbled into being the first director of note in American film.