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Edwin S. Porter

Director

Edwin S. Porter

Directing
1914 · 1 film
Lived
21 April 1870 — d. 1941
From
Connellsville, Pennsylvania, USA

Edwin Stanton Porter was an American film pioneer, most famous as a producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company. Influenced by both the "Brighton school" and the story films of Georges Méliès, Porter went on to make important shorts such as Life of an American Fireman (1903) and The Great Train Robbery (1903). In them, he helped to develop the modern concept of continuity editing, paving the way for D.W.

Career Signature

How Edwin S. Porter’s filmography reads.

Five of Perfery’s 75 vibes, averaged across every film they directed.