Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
- Documentary
10/9/1982
60
G
Storyline
A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
- Director:
Cast
Blanche SweetNarrator (voice)
D. A. PennebakerReader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice)- Miloš FormanReader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)
- Louis MalleReader - Melies Catalogue (voice)
- Robert AltmanReader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice)
- Thomas A. EdisonHimself (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Edwin S. PorterHimself (archive footage) (uncredited)