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Edwin S. Porter

Highest Rated: 100% The Great Train Robbery (1903)

Lowest Rated: 80% The Crucible (1914)

Birthday: Apr 21, 1870

Birthplace: Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA

Preeminent figure among early American filmmakers and one of the first to use techniques such as closeups and intercutting for narrative purposes. Porter was a projectionist, inventor and entrepreneur before starting work in 1900 for the Edison company, where he was soon promoted to head of film production. By 1901 he was making multi-shot films such as "The Execution of Czolgosz," a drama about the execution of US President McKinley's assassin which juxtaposed documentary footage of the prison with a staged dramatization of the execution itself.

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Highest rated movies

100% 75% The Great Train Robbery
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80% The Crucible
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Train Wreckers
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66% Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
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The Dancing Girl of Butte
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What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City
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Coney Island at Night
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How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game
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A Child of the Ghetto
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Cohen's Fire Sale
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
80% No Score Yet The Crucible Director - 1914
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Dancing Girl of Butte Producer - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Child of the Ghetto Producer - 1910
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Cord of Life Producer - 1909
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm Director - 1908
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cohen's Fire Sale Director - 1907
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus Director - 1907
No Score Yet No Score Yet How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game Director - 1906
No Score Yet 66% Dream of a Rarebit Fiend Director - 1906
No Score Yet No Score Yet Train Wreckers Director,
Cinematographer
- 1905
No Score Yet No Score Yet Coney Island at Night Director - 1905
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Night Before Christmas Director - 1905
No Score Yet No Score Yet How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns Director - 1904
No Score Yet No Score Yet Railroad Smashup Cinematographer - 1904
100% 75% The Great Train Robbery Director,
Screenwriter,
Cinematographer
- 1903
No Score Yet No Score Yet Rube and Mandy at Coney Island Director,
Cinematographer
- 1903
No Score Yet No Score Yet What Happened in the Tunnel Director,
Cinematographer
- 1903
No Score Yet No Score Yet What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City Director,
Cinematographer
- 1901