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Edwin S. Porter

1870-1941

US movie director and pioneer filmmaker who directed some of the world's first movies including "Life of an American Fireman" (1903) and "The Great Train Robbery" (1903).  He was the first to see how the chronophotography of Muybridge and Marey could be combined with breakthrough technology of continuous celluloid film and perfected the sequencing of single-shot films into something like a story.

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