EDWIN S. PORTER | 2/5/18

What was Porters contribution to cinema?  What was so significant about his work?

Edwin S. Porter was the first to discover visual continuity in film, a cutting style that maintains time and space. His work was so significant because he used cross-cutting, which is cutting between two different characters or actions in film. During that time, those two techniques were groundbreaking and never before seen.

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