Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter (1982)

Blanche Sweet as Narrator (voice) Died 1986 · Chicago, Illinois, USA From Wikipedia Sarah Blanche Sweet (June 18, 1896 – September 6, 1986) was an American silent film actress who began her career in the earliest days of the Hollywood motion picture film industry. Sw...

D. A. Pennebaker as Reader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice) Died 2019 · Evanston, Illinois, USA Donn Alan Pennebaker (/ˈpɛniːbeɪkər/; July 15, 1925 – August 1, 2019) was an American documentary filmmaker and one of the pioneers of direct cinema. Performing arts and politics were his primary subj...

Miloš Forman as Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice) Died 2018 · Čáslav, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic] Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman (/ˈmiːloʊʃ/; Czech: [ˈmɪloʃ ˈforman]; February 18, 1932 – April 13, 2018) was a Czech and American film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his na...

Louis Malle as Reader - Melies Catalogue (voice) Died 1995 · Thumeries, Nord, France Louis Marie Malle (30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. His film "The Silent World" won the Palme d'Or in 1956 and the Academy Award for Best Doc...

Robert Altman as Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice) Died 2006 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 20...