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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.
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 |
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Dream of a Rarebit Fiend | Director | - | 1906 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Coney Island at Night | Director | - | 1905 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Train Wreckers |
Director, Cinematographer |
- | 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% |
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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 |