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              Company and the Georges Melies Company, the pioneer
              of the dark comedy, horror, andscience fiction gen es, were
              his fie ce competitors.

              By the end of the nineteenth century, filmmaking was being
              taken seriously. As the twentieth century began, Edwin S.
              Porter was the first consequential filmm  er. Using a style
              known as “primitive”, he began working for the Edison
              Company. He was very casual about organizing his duties as
              a filmma er. This led to him being the camera operator, the
              director, the negative processor, the film edito , he even paid
              the bills and repaired and maintained the equipment. After
              working this way for ten years, his methods began to be
              criticized by the company, and he was asked to resign.

              Later in his life, he was praised for his courage and hard
              work in a job that had no set criteria to follow. The Life of
              an American Fireman and The Great Train Robbery are
              two of  the noteworthy movies Porter filmed for Edison in
              1903. The originality, the techniques used and the plot of
              both films  eceived recognition in America and Europe.
              Until 1912, The Great Train Robbery was the single most
              original movie, and it is widely considered to be the classic
              American film  In order to move the plot along and to omit
              non-essential details, Porter used ellipses. This generated
              a lot of excitment about the film because audiences could
              understand the technique. In the closing scene of the film
              the sheriff kills off the last three robbers by aiming his gun
              straight at the camera. The ending was both frightening and
              thrilling and left the audience wanting more.



                                                             ellipses
                                                             (n.): elipsis,
                                                             omisiones







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