Where to watch Edwin S. Porter in the UK
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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 th…
Edwin S. Porter films streaming in the UK
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- The Great Train Robbery (1903) Director
- Hearts Adrift (1914) Director
- The Gay Shoe Clerk (1903) Director of Photography
- Faust (1909) Director
- Niobe (1915) Director
- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1910) Director
- College Chums (1907) Director
- Life of an American Fireman (1903) Director
- "Weary Willlie" Kisses the Bride (1904) Director
- Bella Donna (1915) Director
- Fireside Reminiscences (1908) Camera Operator
- Laughing Gas (1907) Director
- Uncle Tom's Cabin (1903) Director
- The Prince and the Pauper (1915) Director
- Parsifal (1904) Director of Photography
- Sold (1915) Director
- The Whole Dam Family and the Dam Dog (1905) Director
- Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (1906) Director
- A Good Little Devil (1914) Director
- A Winter Straw Ride (1906) Director
- Miss Sherlock Holmes (1908) Director
- The Night Before Christmas (1905) Director
- The Trainer’s Daughter, or A Race for Love (1907) Director
- The House of Cards (1909) Director
- Electrocuting an Elephant (1903) Director of Photography
- Rivals (1907) Director
- The 'Teddy' Bears (1907) Director
- Dog Factory (1904) Camera Operator
- The White Caps (1905) Director
- Jack and the Beanstalk (1902) Director of Photography
- The Old Maid in the Horsecar (1901) Director
- His Mother's Thanksgiving (1910) Director
- The White Pearl (1915) Director
- Tale the Autumn Leaves Told (1908) Director
- A Child of the Ghetto (1910) Producer
- Uncle Josh at the Moving Picture Show (1902) Camera Operator
- The Twentieth Century Tramp; or, Happy Hooligan and His Airship (1902) Camera Operator
- Why Mr. Nation Wants a Divorce (1901) Director
- Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982) as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
- The Count of Monte Cristo (1913) Director
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