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Birth Name: Edwin Stratton Porter
Born: 21 April 1870 Died: 30 April 1941
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In the late 1890s Porter worked as both a projectionist and mechanic, eventually becoming director and cameraman for the Edison Manufacturing 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 Asalto y robo al tren (1903). In them, he helped to develop the modern concept of continuity editing, paving the way for D.W. Griffith who would expand on Porter's discovery that the unit of film structure was the shot rather than the scene. Porter, in an attempt to resist the new industrial system born o
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1. The Great Train Robbery (1903)
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2. Life Of An American Fireman (1903)
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3. Electrocuting an Elephant (1903)
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4. Dream of a Rarebit Fiend (2009)
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2. Life Of An American Fireman (1903)
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