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1908 Nott Steamer firetruck July 4th 1909 parade East Congress Tucson Arizona 1909-2009 Poster
by David Lee Guss
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1908 Nott Steamer firetruck July 4th 1909 parade East Congress Tucson Arizona 1909-2009 poster by David Lee Guss. Our posters are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All posters include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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Thomas Edison's premier director was Edwin S. Porter (1870-1941) He began in film in 1896 as a traveling projectionist in the US, Canada, West Indies... more
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Thomas Edison's premier director was Edwin S. Porter (1870-1941) He began in film in 1896 as a traveling projectionist in the US, Canada, West Indies and South America.
Edison hired Porter in 1899. He soon was in charge of Edison's New York studios as a camera operator, director and assembler of the final print.
1903 was a banner year as he directed the two classics "Life of an American Fireman" and "The Great Train Robbery." Porter's travels had given him a feel for what subjects pleased audiences.
In "Firemen" he used the film device of dissolves to link images in two locations: the flimsily built sets of the studio and the real street locations. Motion pictures were slowly developing their own unique grammar.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4C0gJ7BnLc
In December of 1903 Edison released Edwin S. Porter's most celebrated film, "The Great Train Robbery."
The 12 minute motion picture was composed of 14 scenes with the action happening...
About David Lee Guss
I first became obsessed with photography and motion pictures while growing up in post WW2 Manila in the Philippine Islands in the late 1940's/early 1950's. Film noirs were a particular influence. But my first love remains the theater. I acted in numerous amateur productions from 1958 to 1978. In 1979 I earned a MA in drama from the University of Arizona; earlier getting a BA in English from the University of Minnesota, where I co-founded the first film society on campus and ran it for four years. While at the U of A, I studied with the master black and white photo essayist W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978) the last year of his life. I am the last person cited in Jim Hughes' definitive biography of Gene, as I wrote about attending his final...
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