The “Great Train Robbery” was written, produced, directed and photographed by Edwin S. Porter, a former cameraman for Thomas Edison. It was the first motion picture with a story-plot, filmed in in the wilds of New Jersey in November 1903. The ten-minute long movie cost just $150 to make. Meanwhile Al Jennings was still trying to rob trains in Oklahoma, Butch and Sundance were holding up banks in South America. Emmett Dalton was in prison and Cole Younger had just gotten out of prison. Wyatt
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