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Decades
Rod Taylor begins his journey in George Pal's The Time Machine (1960)
Edwin S. Porter sparks the public's hunger for narrative films with The Great Train Robbery (1903), and both Mary Pickford and D. W. Griffith begin their movie careers
The emergence of the star system makes players like Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks household names. D. W. Griffith makes his controversial historical epic The Birth of a Nation.
1920s - 1990s
The Story of the Movies' expanding collection of in-depth articles will soon reach the 1920s and beyond...
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