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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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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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Train Wreckers
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66% Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
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A Child of the Ghetto
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How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game
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Cohen's Fire Sale
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Filmography

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The Crucible 80% 1914 Director The Dancing Girl of Butte 1910 Producer A Child of the Ghetto 1910 Producer The Cord of Life 1909 Producer A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm 1908 Director Cohen's Fire Sale 1907 Director A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus 1907 Director How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game 1906 Director Dream of a Rarebit Fiend 66% 1906 Director Coney Island at Night 1905 Director Train Wreckers 1905 Director, Cinematographer The Night Before Christmas 1905 Director How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns 1904 Director Railroad Smashup 1904 Cinematographer The Great Train Robbery 100% 75% 1903 Director, Screenwriter, Cinematographer Rube and Mandy at Coney Island 1903 Director, Cinematographer What Happened in the Tunnel 1903 Director, Cinematographer What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City 1901 Director, Cinematographer
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