Edwin S. Porter (1870-1941):
Father of American story film

Porter was an inventor and theater operator hired in 1900 by Edison to re-invigorate his motion picture operation.

From 1900 to 1902 Porter along with designer George Fleming make a series of two and three shot films.

In 1903 in Life of an American Fireman Porter moves closer to showing a fictional story with parallel sequences and, later that year, in Great Train Robbery he accomplishes it.