Before the Nickelodeon: The Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982) | Full Cast

Charles Musser

DIRECTOR

Blanche Sweet

Narrator (voice)

Jay Leyda

Reader - Thomas A. Edison (voice)

Rob Issen

Reader - Corbett-Courtney Fight (voice)

Robert Sklar

Reader - Porter's Naval Record (voice)

Robert Rosen

Reader - Vitascope's First Night (voice)

Mitchell Kriegman

Reader - 'Kiss' Review (voice)

Peter Davis

Reader - Eden Musee (voice)

D.A. Pennebaker

Reader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice)

Milos Forman

Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)

Warren Leight

Reader - Terrible Teddy (voice)

Rick King

Reader - Sampson-Schley Controversy (voice)

Anthony Potter

Reader - Fighting the Flames (voice)

Louis Malle

Reader - Melies Catalogue (voice)

Robert Altman

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

Jim Walton

Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' (voice)

Michael Peyser

Reader - Edison Studio (voice)

Grahame Weinbren

Reader - 'Eagle's Nest' Review (voice)

Steve Brier

Reader - Adolph Zukor (voice)

Thomas A. Edison

Self (uncredited) (archiveFootage)

Edwin S. Porter

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