![]() In 1900 Porter was hired by the Edison Company to make improvements to and redesign their motion-picture equipment, and he was soon placed in charge of Edison’s skylight studio on East 21st Street in New York City. He then worked as an exhibitor in Canada during the summer of 1897 before returning to the Eden Musée as a projectionist. He then toured with vaudeville entertainers through the Caribbean as an exhibitor of motion pictures, and in early 1897 he helped build the projector at the Eden Musée, a wax museum and theatre in New York City. Later that year he went to work for Raff & Gammon in New York but left after the Edison Company broke with Raff & Gammon. In 1896 several of Porter’s friends bought from Raff & Gammon the exclusive rights to show films by using the Edison Company’s new Vitascope projector in Indiana and California, and Porter worked with them as a projectionist in Los Angeles and Indianapolis. He subsequently opened a tailor business, but after that venture went bankrupt, he joined the U.S. Porter coinvented a device to regulate the intensity of an electric light in 1891. Porter, in full Edwin Stanton Porter, original name Edward Stanton Porter, (born April 21, 1870, Connellsville, Pennsylvania, U.S.-died April 30, 1941, New York, New York), pioneer American film director whose innovative use of dramatic editing (piecing together scenes shot at different times and places) in such films as The Life of An American Fireman (1903) and The Great Train Robbery (1903) revolutionized filmmaking. SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!Įdwin S.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.Britannica Beyond We’ve created a new place where questions are at the center of learning.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find.Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions. ![]()
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