Edwin S. Porter

I did this and only found a couple of articles written by academics, which discuss the concept without showing it. And the concept is not clear. Something an academic loves to play with, I know from experience. But back to what I said earlier - and what these papers I read also agree with - FIREMAN and TRAIN ROBBERY (and for that matter A TRIP TO THE MOON to some extent) are examples of continuity editing, as explained in my previous post, which was revolutionary at the time and was the beginning of narrative film storytelling as we now know it.

I'm still going to see if I can find the version of FIREMAN I remember seeing first, but it's been so long, and I suppose it's possible that the version I saw today is the one I saw then. In any case, as I said, the fact that it utilized continuity editing is still historically significant.