Edwin S. Porter
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. Griffith who would expand on Porter's discovery that the unit of film structure was the shot rather than the scene. Porter, in an attempt to resist the new industrial system born out of the popularity of nickelodeons, left Edison in 1909 to form his own production company which he eventually sold in 1912.
Porter remains an enigmatic figure in motion picture history. Though his significance as director of The Great Train Robbery and other innovative early films is undeniable, he rarely repeated an innovation after he had used it successfully, never developed a consistent directorial style, and in later years never protested when others rediscovered his techniques and claimed them as their own. He was a modest, quiet, cautious man who felt uncomfortable working with the famous stars he directed starting in 1912.
He has directed four films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Life of an American Fireman (1903), The Great Train Robbery (1903), Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906) and Tess of the Storm Country (1914).
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Películas (189)
Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
1982 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Prince and the Pauper
1915 · Director
Bella Donna
1915 · Director
Zaza
1915 · Director
The White Pearl
1915 · Director
Sold
1915 · Director
The Eternal City
1915 · Director
When We Were Twenty-One
1915 · Director
Niobe
1915 · Director
The Morals of Marcus
1915 · Director
The Crucible
1914 · Director, Writer
Such a Little Queen
1914 · Director
Tess of the Storm Country
1914 · Director, Director of Photography
A Good Little Devil
1914 · Director, Director of Photography
Hearts Adrift
1914 · Director, Director of Photography
The Count of Monte Cristo
1913 · Director, Director of Photography, Editor
His Neighbor's Wife
1913 · Director
In the Bishop's Carriage
1913 · Director
The Prisoner of Zenda
1913 · Director
The Price
1911 · Director
Lost Illusions
1911 · Writer, Director
The Lighthouse by the Sea
1911 · Director
Sherlock Holmes, Jr.
1911 · Director
On the Brink
1911 · Director
A Heroine of '76
1911 · Director
Russia, the Land of Oppression
1910 · Director
On the Western Frontier
1909 · Director
The Colored Stenographer
1909 · Director
Miss Sherlock Holmes
1908 · Director
She
1908 · Director, Writer
The Gentleman Burglar
1908 · Camera Operator
Nero and the Burning of Rome
1908 · Cinematography
Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
1908 · Director
A Country Girl's Seminary Life and Experiences
1908 · Camera Operator
Cupid’s Pranks
1908 · Director of Photography
Fireside Reminiscences
1908 · Camera Operator
A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm
1908 · Director
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest
1908 · Director of Photography
The Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus
1907 · Director
Laughing Gas
1907 · Director
College Chums
1907 · Director
The Trainer’s Daughter, or A Race for Love
1907 · Director
Jack the Kisser
1907 · Director
Rivals
1907 · Director
Cohen’s Fire Sale
1907 · Director
The 'Teddy' Bears
1907 · Director
Poor John
1907 · Director
Getting Evidence
1906 · Director, Director of Photography
Kathleen Mavourneen
1906 · Camera Operator
How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game
1906 · Director of Photography, Director
Waiting at the Church
1906 · Director
The Life of an American Cowboy
1906 · Director
Life of a Cowboy
1906 · Director
The Terrible Kids
1906 · Camera Operator
Three American Beauties
1906 · Director, Director of Photography
A Winter Straw Ride
1906 · Director, Director of Photography
Dream of a Rarebit Fiend
1906 · Director
The Night Before Christmas
1905 · Director, Director of Photography
The Life of an American Policeman
1905 · Director
Desperate Encounter Between Burglar and Police
1905 · Camera Operator
The Train Wreckers
1905 · Director
The Miller’s Daughter
1905 · Director
The Watermelon Patch
1905 · Director
The White Caps
1905 · Director
The Little Train Robbery
1905 · Director
The Boarding School Girls
1905 · Director
Scenes and Incidents, Russo-Japanese Peace Conference, Portsmouth, N. H.
1905 · Director
Empire State Express, the Second, Taking Water on the Fly
1905 · Camera Operator
The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog
1905 · Director
The Burglar's Slide for Life
1905 · Camera Operator
I.B. Dam and the Whole Dam Family
1905 · Director
On a Good Old 5¢ Trolley Ride
1905 · Camera Operator
Coney Island at Night
1905 · Director
How Jones Lost His Roll
1905 · Director, Director of Photography
The Seven Ages
1905 · Director
The Kleptomaniac
1905 · Director
The Strenuous Life; or, Anti-Race Suicide
1904 · Director
Scarecrow Pump
1904 · Director
The Ex-Convict
1904 · Director
A Rube Couple at a County Fair
1904 · Director
Parsifal
1904 · Director of Photography
City Hall to Harlem in 15 Seconds, Via the Subway Route
1904 · Camera Operator
Railroad Smashup
1904 · Camera Operator
Maniac Chase
1904 · Camera Operator
"Weary Willlie" Kisses the Bride
1904 · Director
Capture of Yegg Bank Burglars
1904 · Director
European Rest Cure
1904 · Director
How a French Nobleman Got a Wife Through the 'New York Herald' Personal Columns
1904 · Director
Fighting the Flames, Dreamland
1904 · Director
Fire and Flames at Luna Park, Coney Island (An Attraction at Coney Island)
1904 · Director of Photography
Scenes in an Infant Orphan Asylum
1904 · Director
Canoeing on the Charles River, Boston, Mass.
1904 · Director of Photography
The Great Train Robbery
1904 · Original Film Writer
Inter-Collegiate Athletic Association Championships
1904 · Director
Dog Factory
1904 · Camera Operator
Skirmish Between Russian and Japanese Advance Guards
1904 · Camera Operator
Battle of Chemulpo Bay
1904 · Cinematography
Japanese Acrobats
1904 · Director
Pranks of Buster Brown and His Dog Tige
1904 · Camera Operator
Buster and Tige Put a Balloon Vendor Out of Business
1904 · Camera Operator
Buster Brown and the Dude
1904 · Camera Operator
Buster's Dog to the Rescue
1904 · Camera Operator
Buster Makes Room for His Mama at the Bargain Counter
1904 · Camera Operator
R. F. Outcault Making a Sketch of Buster and Tige
1904 · Director
Animated Painting
1904 · Camera Operator, Director
Treloar and Miss Marshall, Prize Winners at the Physical Culture Show in Madison Square Garden
1904 · Director
Crossing Ice Bridge at Niagara Falls
1904 · Camera Operator, Director
Buster's Joke on Papa (II)
1903 · Camera Operator
The Great Train Robbery
1903 · Director, Director of Photography, Writer, Producer
Buster's Joke on Papa (I)
1903 · Camera Operator
What Happened in the Tunnel
1903 · Director of Photography
Chicago-Michigan Football Game
1903 · Cinematography
The Animated Poster
1903 · Camera Operator
The Extra Turn
1903 · Camera Operator
The Messenger Boy's Mistake
1903 · Director
A Romance of the Rail
1903 · Camera Operator
The Physical Culture Girl
1903 · Camera Operator
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1903 · Director
Rube and Mandy at Coney Island
1903 · Director
The Gay Shoe Clerk
1903 · Director of Photography
Subub Surprises the Burglar
1903 · Camera Operator
The Unappreciated Joke
1903 · Director
Street Car Chivalry
1903 · Camera Operator
Panorama of Riker's Island, N.Y.
1903 · Director
Fireboat 'New Yorker' in Action
1903 · Director
White Wings on Review
1903 · Director
Sorting Refuse at Incinerating Plant, New York City
1903 · Director
New York City Dumping Wharf
1903 · Director
New York City 'Ghetto' Fish Market
1903 · Director
New York Harbor Police Boat Patrol Capturing Pirates
1903 · Director
Panorama of Blackwell's Island
1903 · Director
Panorama Water Front and Brooklyn Bridge from East River
1903 · Director
Life of an American Fireman
1903 · Policeman, Director
Electrocuting an Elephant
1903 · Director of Photography, Director
How They Do Things on the Bowery
1902 · Director
Jack and the Beanstalk
1902 · Director of Photography, Director
Burning of St. Pierre (Martinique)
1902 · Camera Operator
Appointment by Telephone
1902 · Director
Charleston Chain-Gang
1902 · Director
The Burlesque Suicide, No. 2
1902 · Camera Operator
Babies Rolling Eggs
1902 · Director
The Burlesque Suicide
1902 · Camera Operator
Fun in a Bakery Shop
1902 · Camera Operator, Director
Burning of Durland's Riding Academy
1902 · Director
Capture of the Biddle Brothers
1902 · Director
The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship
1902 · Camera Operator, Director
Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show
1902 · Camera Operator
Execution of Czolgosz with Panorama of Auburn Prison
1901 · Camera Operator
Panorama of Esplanade by Night
1901 · Director
Catching an Early Train
1901 · Camera Operator
The Martyred Presidents
1901 · Camera Operator
Pan-American Exposition by Night
1901 · Director
Day at the Circus
1901 · Director
Life Rescue at Long Branch
1901 · Director
Rubes in the Theatre
1901 · Director
Circular Panorama of Electric Tower
1901 · Director, Director of Photography
The Reversible Divers
1901 · Director
What Happened on Twenty-Third Street, New York City
1901 · Camera Operator
Panoramic View of Electric Tower from a Balloon
1901 · Director of Photography
Aunt Sallie's Wonderful Bustle
1901 · Cinematography
Photographing a Country Couple
1901 · Camera Operator
Sampson-Schley Controversy
1901 · Director
Esquimaux Game of Snap-the-Whip
1901 · Director of Photography
The Esquimaux Village
1901 · Director
A Trip Around the Pan-American Exposition
1901 · Director
The Tramp's Unexpected Skate
1901 · Director
Another Job for the Undertaker
1901 · Director
Laura Comstock's Bag-Punching Dog
1901 · Director
Love by the Light of the Moon
1901 · Director
Kansas Saloon Smashers
1901 · Director
President McKinley Taking the Oath
1901 · Cinematography
President McKinley and Escort Going to the Capitol
1901 · Director
The Old Maid Having Her Picture Taken
1901 · Director
Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce
1901 · Director
The Old Maid in the Horsecar
1901 · Director
The Finish of Bridget McKeen
1901 · Camera Operator
Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King
1901 · Director
A Dull Razor
1900 · Director
Faust and Marguerite
1900 · Director
An Artist's Dream
1900 · Director
The Kiss
1900 · Director
Uncle Josh's Nightmare
1900 · Director
The Magician
1900 · Director
Ching Ling Foo Outdone
1900 · Director
An Animated Luncheon
1900 · Director
Uncle Josh in a Spooky Hotel
1900 · Director
The Mystic Swing
1900 · Director
Dewar's Scotch Whisky
1900 · Director
Strange Adventure of New York Drummer
1899 · Director
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