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by | Nov 1, 2006 | Western Movies

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The Great Train Robbery (1903) started it all. Not only was it the first narrative film ever made, but it was a Western and one based on an 1896 story by Scott Marble. The roughly 10-minute action picture was so well-received by audiences that the movie established films as a commercially-viable medium. Early producers sought out their own Scott Marble and turned to pulp fiction magazines for writers and stories. The silents of the 1920s adapted Zane Grey short stories as well as those by Pet


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