we start to see more fiction fi lm, more films with actors or acting out a scene. this is not real life. this is a constructed reality. director inired a 1902, a man named edwin s. porter, who becomes important for the history of film. made a few early narrative films in which he is playing around some of the editing techniques. with aculminates in 1903 film called "the great train robbery." this is a very important film in history as well. we think of this as the first feature-length narrative film. it tells the story of a train robbery. the action is inter-cut, where you see the mail train being rob bed. you see the outlwas, th -- the outlaws, the action taking place in different locations, and it cut together in such a way that you can easily understand the story, but it is radical editing at the time. this is our original paper print deposit of "the great train robbery," including the famous scene at the end in which the outlaw george barnes fires his gun directly into the camera. so this is very iconic at the end of our paper print. this was registered for cop