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Many film historians argue that Western is the parent of all
American genres-- Edwin Porter's The Great Train Robbery was
produced in 1903. But in France, Fantasy films, the progenitor to
Science Fiction, had hit the ground running in 1902 with George
Melies' La Voyage Dans la Lune. Americans were as captivated by
the fantastic possibilities of film that Science Fiction proposed
as the realism that Western offered, and American film and
technology has done much in the last century to define and expand
the Sci-Fi genre. |
