Devil (1913), also directing Pauline Frederick and John Barrymore. 3D movie pioneer But his directorial skills had not kept pace with rapid changes in motion picture art, although his technical skills were piqued by 3D. Porter's last film premiered on June 10, 1915, Niagara Falls, the first anaglyph 3D movie. In 1916 he left Famous Players during a reorganization. Precision Machine Company From 1917 to 1925 Porter served as president of the Precision Machine Company, manufacturers of the Simplex projectors. After his retirement in 1925 he continued to work on his own as an inventor and designer, securing several patents for still cameras and projector devices. During the 1930s he was employed by an appliance corporation. Death Aged 71, he died in 1941 at the Hotel Taft in New York City and was buried in Husband Cemetery, Somerset, Pennsylvania. He was survived by his wife, Caroline Ridinger, whom he had married on June 5, 1893; they had no children. Legacy Porter remains an enigmatic figure in motion picture history. Though his significance as director of The Great Train Robbery and other innovative early films is undeniable, he rarely repeated an innovation after he had used it successfully, never developed a consistent directorial style, and in later years never protested when others rediscovered his techniques and claimed them as their own. He was a modest, quiet, cautious man who felt uncomfortable working with the famous stars he directed starting in 1912. Zukor said of Porter that he was more an artistic mechanic than a dramatic artist, a man who liked to deal with machines better than with people. See also Edwin S. Porter filmography References External links Musser, Charles. Before the Nickelodeon: Edwin S. Porter and the Edison Manufacturing Company. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1991 1991. Free Online - UC Press E-Books Collection 1870 births 1941 deaths 19th-century American inventors 20th-century American inventors Cinema pioneers Edison Pioneers People from Connellsville, Pennsylvania Silent film directors Western (genre) film directors Fantasy film directors Film directors from Pennsylvania United States Navy sailors Articles containing video clips