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A small snippet from the tail end of The Great Train Robbery (dir. Edwin S. Porter, 1903) - and it serves as the BIG BANG! we needed to open up this chapter of the Spy-Fi Project! By the dawn of the 20th century, Cinema was quickly approaching at the pace of a bullet and was quickly developing - early on it was little brief glimpses of events and happenstance makeshift experiments - but soon stories and adventures would blossom on screen and a whole new world within a world was just within reach! The Great Train Robbery (1903) didn't necessarily invent the action, adventure, or western genres - but it lives on in the public imagination as the genesis of these. I present it here as a signal to start off the next chapter of the series that focuses on cinema. Watch for more this month as we cover how the stories, structures, and adventures presented in early cinema (we will be covering the 1910s to 1930s in more detail for this portion of the project) are able to be absorbed into the popular imagination and thus we see how it influences Spy-Fi and in fact provides many important early precursors of the genre in cinematic form!

Next Time - A French Crime Wave!

Description
A small snippet from the tail end of The Great Train Robbery (dir. Edwin S. Porter, 1903) - and it serves as the BIG BANG! we needed to open up this chapter of the Spy-Fi Project! By the dawn of the 20th century, Cinema was quickly approaching at the pace of a bullet and was quickly developing - early on it was little brief glimpses of events and happenstance makeshift experiments - but soon stories and adventures would blossom on screen and a whole new world within a world was just within reach! The Great Train Robbery (1903) didn't necessarily invent the action, adventure, or western genres - but it lives on in the public imagination as the genesis of these. I present it here as a signal to start off the next chapter of the series that focuses on cinema. Watch for more this month as we cover how the stories, structures, and adventures presented in early cinema (we will be covering the 1910s to 1930s in more detail for this portion of the project) are able to be absorbed into the popular imagination and thus we see how it influences Spy-Fi and in fact provides many important early precursors of the genre in cinematic form!

Next Time - A French Crime Wave!