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Silent · 1903 · 12 min

The Great Train Robbery

Edwin S. Porter’s 1903 one-reeler: a short, famous experiment in cutting from place to place. A Western in miniature, made before features existed.

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Source
Edwin S. Porter, Edison, 1903
Licence
Public domain
Why it is here
Published in 1903. Public domain. The shelf plays the Archive’s smaller silent file so it can open more readily.