Edwin S. Porter’s, The Great Train Robbery hit the silver screen in 1903. Filmed in the wilds of New Jersey, it lasted just nine minutes. It was the first motion picture with a story-plot and cost only $150 to make.
When a bandit fired his pistol directly into the camera. The unsophisticated audience, unaccustomed to such realism, panicked. Women screamed and fainted while men dove for cover under t
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