Porter was born and raised in Pennsylvania. He developed an interest in electricity at a young age. Edwin Porter was a film pioneer in the early 1900's. Porter entered the motion picture work in 1896 when movies were projected on large screens. He adventured through the West Indies and South America with a projector scope to show films at fair grounds and open fields. Soon afterward he took charge of motion picture production at Edision New York studios. His job consumed of operating the camera, directing the actors, and assembling the final print. During the next decade Porter became the most influential filmmaker in the United States. Apparently from Porters experience he was able to know exactly how to please the crowd. Porter began making trick-films and comedies. One of Edwin Porters earliest films was called Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King. Instead of using abrupt splices or cuts between shots, however, Porter created dissolves, gradual transitions from one image to another. One of Edwin's most popular films was called The Great Train Robbery, Porter took the American Western story already popular to many audiences and made it an entirely new visual experience. It was a one-reel film that ran for twelve minutes and it composed of twenty different shot.
The Great Train Robbery toured for several years throughout the United States and it's success led towards establishing motion pictures for commercial entertainment. Porters director skills kept him in pace with the changes in motion art. He created a 3D anagylph movie. The year before he had shown a short 3D film of Niagra Falls in 1915. Porter was known for rarely repeating an innovation. He diead at age 71 in 1941in New York City.
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