Major disasters in this decade included the Chinese famine of 1907, the 1908 Messina earthquake, the San Francisco earthquake and fire and the Great Baltimore Fire. The first huge success of American cinema, as well as the largest experimental achievement to this point, was the 1903 film "The Great Train Robbery", directed by Edwin S. Porter, while the world's first feature film, "The Story of the Kelly Gang", was released on 26 December 1906 in Melbourne, Australia. Popular books of this decade included "Anne of Green Gables" (1908) and "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" (1902), which sold 50 million and 45 million copies respectively.