What is Edwin S. Porter's middle name?
Stanton
What is Edwin S. Porter's full name?
Edwin Stanton Porter
Edwin S. Porter nickname(s):
Edwin Stanton Porter, Edwin S. Porter, Edwin Porter
Edwin S. Porter date of birth:
April 21, 1870
How old was Edwin S. Porter when died?
71
Where was Edwin S. Porter born?
Connellsville, Pennsylvania
When did Edwin S. Porter die?
April 30, 1941
What is Edwin S. Porter nationality?
American
What is Edwin S. Porter's occupation?
Film director, film producer
Short Biography
In the late 1890s Porter worked as both a projectionist and mechanic, eventually becoming director and cameraman for the Edison Manufacturing 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.