Before the nickelodeon : Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company
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Before the nickelodeon : Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company
(The UCLA Film and Television Archive studies in history, criticism, and theory)
University of California Press, c1991
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 491-550
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Musser takes us into the long-forgotten world of early cinema unexpectedly sophisticated and yet radically different from current movie-making. Focusing on Edwin S. Porter, most often remembered as the producer of The Great Train Robbery, Musser situates Porter's achievements within the vibrant context of turn-of-the-century popular culture and the commercial pragmatics of the Edison Manufacturing Company the leading American film-producing entity from 1894 to 1908.
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