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The Great Train Robbery
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Edwin S. Porter's 1903 Western for the Edison company, a milestone of film editing: its story is assembled from separately staged scenes cut together, including cross-cutting between locations, and it closes on a bandit firing his pistol point-blank at the audience. Its commercial success helped establish the story film as the industry's product.
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