Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company (Volume 1) (The UCLA Film and Television Archives: Studies in History, Criticism, and Theory)

Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company (Volume 1) (The UCLA Film and Television Archives: Studies in History, Criticism, and Theory) by Musser, Charles. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780520069862.

Musser takes us into the long-forgotten world of early cinema―unexpectedly sophisticated and yet radically different from current movie-making. Focusing on Edwin S. Porter, most often remembered as the producer of The Great Train Robbery, Musser situates Porter’s achievements within the vibrant context of turn-of-the-century popular culture and the commercial pragmatics of the Edison Manufacturing Company―the leading American film-producing entity from 1894 to 1908.