Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter

A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.

• Charles MusserDirector

• Blanche SweetNarrator (voice)
• D. A. PennebakerReader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice)
• Miloš FormanReader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)
• Louis MalleReader - Melies Catalogue (voice)
• Robert AltmanReader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice)
• Thomas A. EdisonHimself (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Edwin S. PorterHimself (archive footage) (uncredited)