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The Great Train Robbery was a movie made in 1903 and was the first American movie that had a story to tell its viewers.It was created by Edwin S.Porter and it lasted for eight minutes.This was a silent film and had a"cops and robbers" plot, like a great deal of movies that followed it.Printed subtitles were finally added to the silent films in 1912.These subtitles were flashed along with the action scenes to help the audience know what was happening...

From the mid-1920s, the movie industry had fulfilled its new rival: the radio.Due to it, a great deal of people stopped going to the movies and the film industry was threatened.Amazingly however, scientists in america and overseas had simultaneously discovered a way to add sound to silent pictures.This discovery could save the movie industry.The first sound pictures created were short films of concert performances...