Overview
A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
Cast
- Blanche Sweet as Narrator (voice)
- D. A. Pennebaker as Reader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice)
- Miloš Forman as Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)
- Louis Malle as Reader - Melies Catalogue (voice)
- Robert Altman as Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice)
- Thomas A. Edison as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Edwin S. Porter as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)