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Posted by: clint at February 29, 2008, 3:00 pm

Topic: Silent Movie Misinformation. Forum: groupsrv

I had a high school history teacher who told my class that "The Great Train Robbery" in 1903 was the first film ever, i.e. the first time action was ever captured on film. I raised my hand and corrected him, saying that I had seen films of President Mckinley's funeral (which had occurred in 1901), and that what he probably meant was that "The Great Train Robbery" was the first film to tell a story. He refused to back down, and said that I was wrong and that he was right. I just shrugged. Now, I am a high school teacher and I am appalled at the misinformation that continues to be spread by my fellow teachers. A student of mine seeing "Gone With the Wind" in her US History Class told me that her history teacher announced to the class "Clark Gable was the first man to take off his shirt in a movie." And went on to further rewrite film history by saying that this had happened only a few years before GWTW. Of course, he was referring to "It Happened One Night"(1934).

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