Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company
by Musser, Charles
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/near fine
- ISBN 10
- 0520060806
- ISBN 13
- 9780520060807
- Seller
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. xii, 591, [1] p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Light brown cloth with black spine title. Illustrated dust jacket. Edwin S. Porter (1870-1941) was was an important early cinematographer with the Edison Manufacturing Company and the Famous Players Film Company. He took charge of motion picture production at Edison's New York studio in 1899 and in the early 20th century was the most influential filmmaker in the United States. His most famous film is The Great Train Robbery produced in 1903. After directing his last film in 1915, Niagara Falls, he continued to invent and improve motion picture equipment. Book is in Fine Condition: clean and tight. Dust jacket is in Near Fine Condition: slightly rubbed; clean and bright.
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- Bookseller
- Classic Books and Ephemera (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008169
- Title
- Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company
- Author
- Musser, Charles
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- near fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0520060806
- ISBN 13
- 9780520060807
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1991
- Bookseller catalogs
- Performing Arts;
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