

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

Blanche Sweet
Narrator (voice)

D. A. Pennebaker
Reader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice)

Miloš Forman
Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)

Louis Malle
Reader - Melies Catalogue (voice)

Robert Altman
Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice)

Thomas A. Edison
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Edwin S. Porter
Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
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