Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
movie
Released October 09, 1982
Genres:
Overview
A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
Cast
Blanche Sweet
as
Narrator (voice)
D. A. Pennebaker
as
Reader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice)
Miloš Forman
as
Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)
Louis Malle
as
Reader - Melies Catalogue (voice)
Robert Altman
as
Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice)
Thomas A. Edison
as
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
Edwin S. Porter
as
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)