EDWIN S. PORTER
DIRECTING
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).
The Great Train Robbery1903
The Gay Shoe Clerk1903
A Good Little Devil1914
The Unappreciated Joke1903
A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus1907
Tess of the Storm Country1914
Coney Island at Night1905
The Night Before Christmas1905
His Mother's Thanksgiving1910
Hearts Adrift1914
Bella Donna1915
Electrocuting an Elephant1903
His Neighbor's Wife1913
I.B. Dam and the Whole Dam Family1905