In the late 1890s Porter worked as both a projectionist and mechanic, eventually becoming director and cameraman for the Edison Manufacturing Company. Influenced by both the "Brighton school" and the story films of Georges Méliès , Porter went on to make important shorts such as Life of an American Fireman (1903) and Der große Eisenbahnraub (1903). In them, he helped to develop the modern concept of continuity editing, paving the way for D.W. Griffith who would expand on Porter's discovery that the unit of film structure was the shot rather than the scene. Porter, in an attempt to resist the new industrial system born out of the popularity of nickelodeons, left Edison in 1909 to form his own production company which he eventually sold in 1912. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Michael Kaminsky
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 870-881. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987. Co-founded (w/William Swanson, Joseph W. Engel ) Rex Film Co., formed in 1909.
Two men are operating a 'dog factory', using a device that they call a Dog Transformator. A man brings three dogs into their shop, which they purchase from him. They place the dogs one by one into the machine, which turns each dog into a string of sausages. As their customers come in, they are then able to select the kind of dog that they want, and the machine changes the corresponding string of sausages back into a dog.
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