Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982)
A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
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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)
- Robert Altman — Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice)
- Thomas A. Edison — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Edwin S. Porter — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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