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Silent film era
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Zazu Pitts, Gibson Gowland, and Hughie Mack in a dramatic scene from the silent film Greed (1924); Gowland stands center, supported by Pitts and Mack on either side. A man in a suit operates a large Kinetograph film camera on a tall tripod atop a rooftop, with city buildings visible in the background. Advertisement for the Edison Kinetoscope shows a family watching projected moving pictures in a home setting, with bold headline and descriptive text below. History of Hollywood Georges Méliès Still from Le Voyage dans la Lune Georges Méliès: Le Voyage dans la Lune
Watch the early movie The Great Train Robbery
Black-and-white scene from The Great Train Robbery (1903) showing two men in hats holding up a train worker beside a stopped locomotive on a railroad track. First female film director

Silent film era: References & Edit History

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