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Edwin S. Porter. Edwin S. Porter was both a film pioneer and director.
He was a film pioneer because he made people come back to ...
... 1898. It was Thomas Edison's cameraman, Edwin S. Porter who would leave
the most profound impact on filmmaking and western films. ...
... America's first Black character found manifestation as the aforementioned Uncle
Tom in Edwin S. Porter's, Uncle Tom's Cabin, which was released in 1903. ...
... Movie watchers could watch short films for 25 cents. Later a man from the Edison
Corporation, Edwin S Porter created the first movie, The great Train Robbery. ...
... form of appeal. The Great Train Robbery was one of the earliest silent films,
directed by Edwin S. Porter in 1903. Being history's ...
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Edwin S. Porter was both a film pioneer and director. He was a film pioneer because he made people come back to the theaters and start watching movies. His movies also were good because they told a story by editing the move. Being a director he made some of the greatest films in 1902 and 1903. In 1902 he directed The Life of an American Fireman and in 1903 The Great Train Robbery. With these two skills he was able to direct great films and use special camera shots not know of at that present time.
Porter was born on April 21st 1870 in Connellsville, Pennsylvania. There was not really any information on his parents but they did his parents first named him Edward. Since he was pudgy people use to call him Betty. There was really no information on why they called him Betty but I am sure it meant something. In 1893 he joined United States Navy and changed his name. He changed his name to Edwin Stanton instead of Edward Stanton. He changed it after Abraham Lincoln's Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton before he went into the Navy. They did not go into any detail on why he did it but my guess is he did not like his name and changed it. In the resources that I found I could not find much information about the rest of his family. I could not even find any information on what he did in his early years. The earliest I could find was starting in 1893.
In 1895 he started to work for the Vitascope Marketing Company. He would use his talent of electrical engineering with the company. With Vitascope he was in the project of the first projected movie that was shown in New York. That date was April 23rd 1896. He used his skills in engineering at Edison's Manufacturing Company's Laboratory. He let Edison for a while and went to Eden Musee Theatre in New York where he an operator. He was in charge of getting the films and projecting them onto the screen. His duties also were kind of illegal because he took a lot of films...
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