Edwin Stanton Porter

American film pioneer (1870–1941)

Edwin Stanton Porter 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), 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), The Prisoner of Zenda (1913), and Tess of the Storm Country (1914).

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Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 74 films (1900–1915) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field.

Year ▲	Title	Creator	Length	Format	Color	Sound
1906	How the Office Boy Saw the Ball Game ▶	Edwin S. Porter	5 min		B&W
1906	Kathleen Mavourneen	Edwin S. Porter			B&W
1906	Police Chasing Scorching Auto ▶	Wallace McCutcheon; Edwin S. Porter	3 min		B&W
1906	The Terrible Kids ▶	Wallace McCutcheon; Edwin S. Porter			B&W
1907	Cohen's fire sale	Museum of Modern Art	15	16mm	B&W	silent
1907	College Chums ▶	Edwin S. Porter			B&W
1907	Jack the kisser	Museum of Modern Art	10	16mm	B&W	silent
1907	Laughing Gas	Edwin Stanton Porter	9 min		B&W
1907	Midnight Ride Of Paul Revere	Coronet	11	16mm	B&W	sound
1907	The Teddy Bears	Edwin Stanton Porter, Wallace McCutcheon, Sr.		16mm	B&W	silent
1907	The Trainer's Daughter; or, A Race for Love ▶	J. Searle Dawley; Edwin S. Porter	14 min		B&W
1908	A Suburbanite's Ingenious Alarm ▶	J. Searle Dawley; Edwin S. Porter			B&W
1908	Fireside Reminiscences ▶	J. Searle Dawley; Edwin S. Porter	8 min		B&W
1908	Tale the Autumn Leaves Told ▶	Edwin S. Porter	2 min		B&W
1910	IN LIFE'S CYCLE	D. W. Griffith	4:00	16mm	B&W
1910	In life's cycle	D. W. Griffith	17 min		B&W
1910	Luck Of Roaring Camp	Kimmel Anne		16mm	B&W	sound
1910	SUNSHINE SUE	Biograph Company.	378	16mm	B&W
1911	A Night Of Terror	Gospel Films Inc	30 min	16mm	B&W	sound
1911	By the Light of the Moon	Edwin Stanton Porter		16mm	B&W	Sound
1914	Tess Of The Storm Country	Famous Players Film Co	2400	16mm	Color	sound
1914	Tess of the Storm Country	Famous Players Film Co	12000	16mm	B&W	silent
1914	THE CRUCIBLE.	American Film Mfg. Co.			B&W
1915	SOLD.	Famous Players Film Co	3 reels		B&W	silent