A Look at the Film Career of Edwin S. Porter (3597 words, 4 pages)
In the first years of American cinema, comedies appeared only occasionally among the numerous documentaries, dramas, and actioners Edwin S. Porter directed at Thomas Edison's New York studio from 1900 to 1909. His earliest comedies, up until around 1902, were one-joke shorts in various series Grandma and Grandpa, Happy Hooligan, ...
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