Appendix C
Credits and Key To Quotations in the Documentary Film Before the Nickelodeon: the Early Cinema of Edwin S. Porter
Readers may be interested in a film produced by the author, titled as above. It is available in film and video formats through First Run Features, 153 Waverly Place, New York, NY 10014 (tel: 212-243-0600). The film is also distributed by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The film was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. A New York-Hollywood Feature Film Production.
The film and the book form a matching pair, so to speak; quotes used in the film also appear in this book, where their source is fully identified. They, along with additional information, are provided for convenient reference below.
Narrator: | Blanche Sweet |
Producer/Director/Editor: | Charles Musser (with Edwin Porter) |
Executive Producer | Stephen Brier |
Screenplay: | Warren D. Leight and Charles Musser |
Associate Producer and Photocolorist: | Elizabeth Lennard |
Assistant Director: | Rick King |
Cinematography: | Rob Issen (stills) |
Re-photography: | Suzanne Williamson |
Consultants: | Eileen Bowser, Nancy Musser, Robert Rosen, and Robert Sklar |
Technical Advisor: | John E. Allen, Jr. |
Sound Effects: | Bill Uttley |
Quotes | Voices | Reference |
Thomas A. Edison: | Jay Leyda | p. 29 |
Porter's Naval Record: | Robert Sklar | p. 27 |
The Corbett-Courtney Fight : | Rob Issen | p. 48 |
Vitascope's Opening Night: | Robert Rosen | pp. 60-61 |
May Irwin Kiss review: | Mitchell Kriegman | pp. 80, 83 |
Eden Musee/War Films: | Peter Davis | pp. 132, 135-36 |
Film as a Visual Newspaper: | D.A. Pennebaker | p. 163 |
The Capture of the Biddle Brothers : | Milos Forman | pp. 193-94 |
Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King : | Warren D. Leight | pp. 169-170 |
Sampson-Schley Controversy : | Rick King | p. 182 |
Fighting the Flames : | Tony Potter | p. 521 n. 13 |
Méliès catalog: | Louis Malle | p. 240 |
Jack and the Beanstalk Promo: | Robert Altman | p. 205 |
Quotes | Voices | Reference |
Jack and the Beanstalk : | Jim Walton | pp. 202-5 |
Edwin S. Porter: | Charles Musser | p. 209 |
Edison Studio: | Michael Peyser | p. 386 |
Rescued from an Eagle's Nest review: | Grahame Weinbren | p. 410 |
Edwin S. Porter: | Charles Musser | pp. 450 |
Adolph Zukor: | Stephen Brier | p. 471 |
In some cases quotes were combined and/or slightly altered to fit the film and the speaker.
The following complete films appear in the documentary :
Mr. Edison at Work in His Chemical Laboratory (1897)
The Corbett-Courtney Fight (one round) (1894)
May Irwin Kiss (1896)
Wreck of the Battleship "Maine" (1898)
Kansas Saloon Smashers (1901)
The Capture of the Biddle Brothers (1902)
The Finish of Bridget McKeen (1901)
Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King (1901)
Sampson-Schley Controversy (1901)
The Execution of Czolgosz (1901)
Elephants Shooting the Chutes, Luna Park, Coney Island, No. 2 (1904)
Appointment by Telephone (1902)
Jack and the Beanstalk (1902)
How They Do Things on the Bowery (1902)
Life of An American Fireman (1902-3)