Edwin S. Porter

American film director

Edwin Stanton Porter (April 21, 1870 – April 30, 1941) 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.

Of over 250 films created by Porter, his most important include: What Happened on Twenty-third Street, New York City, (1901), (the 72-seconds long footage depicting the skirt-raising scene later used in The Seven Year Itch);

Jack and the Beanstalk (1902);Life of an American Fireman (1903);The Great Train Robbery (1903);The European Rest Cure (1904);The Kleptomaniac (1905);Life of a Cowboy (1906);

Rescued from an Eagle's Nest (1908); and The Prisoner of Zenda (1913).

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