Timeline Tuesday 1 December 1903

Events on Tuesday 1 December 1903 1

• 1903 The Great Train Robbery premieres Edwin S. Porter's film is an early landmark of narrative cinema Directed by Edwin S. Porter for the Edison Manufacturing Company, The Great Train Robbery premiered on 1 December 1903. The twelve-minute film used editing techniques such as cross-cutting that influenced the development of narrative filmmaking. It became one of the most popular and influential films of the silent era.