Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson - The 4th bandit who rides the white horse and falls off it; he's also the one who has difficulty mounting up. Anderson could barely ride a horse at that time in his film career.
Gilbert M. Anderson's fall was unintended and not in the synopsis, but he managed to regain his footing and somewhat awkwardly improvised by pulling out his six-shooter and waves it around before pretending to be shot dead, transforming this virtual blooper into a realistic scene. Anderson's 4th train robber character was originally supposed to get killed along with the rest of his gang in a shootout after dismounting.
Scene 11 - Anderson is the tenderfoot who enters the dance hall where the cowboys (soon to become a posse) fire their six-shooters near his feet forcing him into an impromptu dance.
Scene 12 - As the 4th train robber being pursued along with his gang, Anderson falls from his horse while being shot at by the posse.
Porter had Anderson play three different parts in the film:
Scene 6 - Anderson is the only held up passenger who tries to make a run for it and gets shot down by one of the train robbers.
Scene 9 - Anderson is the 4th train robber who accidentally drops then picks up his sack of stolen loot while crossing a creek; he also has trouble mounting his white horse as the 3rd robber waits for him.
Anderson was actually the assistant director/second unit director of this milestone Western. It was Anderson who contributed the action-packed elements to the film. Edwin S. Porter was flabbergasted when he found out that Anderson conned him about being a horseman: Anderson barely knew how to ride.
Thus, motion picture cinema's very first cowboy hero GILBERT M. ANDERSON began his rise. In Edwin Stanton Porter's landmark THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY(1903), the part of the head bandit was played by moustachioed Justus D. Barnes, who appears at the end of the film and points a gun at the audience and fires (which was actually Anderson's original suggestion to director Porter). Upon its release on 1 December 1903, a lady in the audience had actually fainted as a result.
The bandits forced the conductor to uncouple the passenger cars from the rest of the train and then blew up the safe in the mail car to escape with about $5,000 in cash.
It was Gilbert M. Anderson, not Edwin S. Porter, who came up with idea for the milestone 14-scene, 10 1/2-min. grand-daddy of all movie Westerns (filmed during November 1903 in New Jersey). Anderson got the idea from a true event that occurred 3 years earlier on 29 August 1900, when outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker[aka Butch Cassidy], Harry Longabaugh[aka The Sundance Kid], and two others halted the No. 3 train on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks near Tipton, Wyoming.
On a more serious note, I am glad I 've finally seen this film, I only knew about the famous "shooting at the audience"! I'm grateful I can watch some of the earliest movies and understand the evolution of cinema. Let's see in 100 years from now how many of our beloved films will be remembered this way.
i love to watch the old silent films from the 1900-1930, and i find it amazing how much tv and movies have evolved from movies like these, to modern movies,
At the end of his life, the deadliest gunfighter of the Old West is given a choice: Hell or redemption. He chooses redemption and God's Archangel transports him to modern day Los Angeles to serve bloody, frontier justice on the worst dregs of society.
Filmed in Edison, NJ in 1902. Max First feature film in the world, first western film in history, as well.
Max Aronson was not Broncho Billy Anderson until his Chicago film studio, Essanay, filmed the first Broncho Billy western in 1909--the first western serial and first western film star, in histopry. Anderson-Aronson starred, directed and produced, all on location, with real old west cowboy extras and costumes.
this was not viewd as a western, the westen genre was not invented at the time. this was viewd upon as a mix of the "railway", the "crime" and the "adventure" genre. this is not the first movie made, but it is one of the first, of course depending on how you define a movie. you need to be aware of the fact that "the industry" was not developed and that the concept of genre when it comes to movies was in its cradle.
2:33 lol what inappropriate music. And I love how he just flings the guy off the train, so obviously a dummy, you can see where they cut the scene and switch the real guy.
This is so interesting to watch! To think that this was the first silent film, and that audiences were SCARED by this film, they would scream, they were amazed. We sure have come a long way.
I like it :]
btw the I'm sorry but lol at 1:54 does the guy actually get SHOT and fall like THAT? :P
easy - Maybe when you can write in complete sentences and use correct spelling for at least one word, we'll take you a little more seriously. Meanwhile, I think this is pretty cool.
Lol, cnt belive ppl stil into these old films, dont get mr wrong its good to see old folks here on the Net because they have seen the World before we have so there shud be respect but i don't belive ppl actually looking in the past in things like this is benificial for anybody.
Its good of you to share this very old movie.Imagine over 100years old movie still working can't believe it.I hope there will be more and nice music also.
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sexykatie90 8 months ago
somebody should upload the last few seconds of this movie, of the cowboy shooting the camera.
eggstaff 10 months ago
LOVE IT!! Its this film that inspired the 4 brothers named Warner to get into the bizz.
thenudo 11 months ago
What a beautiful print for a film of that age.
Well done for posting this.
LordHeath1972 1 year ago
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The four train robbing bandits are:
Justus D. Barnes - The mustachioed head bandit
John Manus Dougherty Sr.
Frank Hanaway
Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson - The 4th bandit who rides the white horse and falls off it; he's also the one who has difficulty mounting up. Anderson could barely ride a horse at that time in his film career.
7slazenger 1 year ago
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7slazenger 1 year ago
Scene 12 - (continued)
Gilbert M. Anderson's fall was unintended and not in the synopsis, but he managed to regain his footing and somewhat awkwardly improvised by pulling out his six-shooter and waves it around before pretending to be shot dead, transforming this virtual blooper into a realistic scene. Anderson's 4th train robber character was originally supposed to get killed along with the rest of his gang in a shootout after dismounting.
7slazenger 1 year ago
Scene 11 - Anderson is the tenderfoot who enters the dance hall where the cowboys (soon to become a posse) fire their six-shooters near his feet forcing him into an impromptu dance.
Scene 12 - As the 4th train robber being pursued along with his gang, Anderson falls from his horse while being shot at by the posse.
7slazenger 1 year ago
Porter had Anderson play three different parts in the film:
Scene 6 - Anderson is the only held up passenger who tries to make a run for it and gets shot down by one of the train robbers.
Scene 9 - Anderson is the 4th train robber who accidentally drops then picks up his sack of stolen loot while crossing a creek; he also has trouble mounting his white horse as the 3rd robber waits for him.
7slazenger 1 year ago
Anderson was actually the assistant director/second unit director of this milestone Western. It was Anderson who contributed the action-packed elements to the film. Edwin S. Porter was flabbergasted when he found out that Anderson conned him about being a horseman: Anderson barely knew how to ride.
7slazenger 1 year ago
Thus, motion picture cinema's very first cowboy hero GILBERT M. ANDERSON began his rise. In Edwin Stanton Porter's landmark THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY(1903), the part of the head bandit was played by moustachioed Justus D. Barnes, who appears at the end of the film and points a gun at the audience and fires (which was actually Anderson's original suggestion to director Porter). Upon its release on 1 December 1903, a lady in the audience had actually fainted as a result.
7slazenger 1 year ago
The bandits forced the conductor to uncouple the passenger cars from the rest of the train and then blew up the safe in the mail car to escape with about $5,000 in cash.
7slazenger 1 year ago
It was Gilbert M. Anderson, not Edwin S. Porter, who came up with idea for the milestone 14-scene, 10 1/2-min. grand-daddy of all movie Westerns (filmed during November 1903 in New Jersey). Anderson got the idea from a true event that occurred 3 years earlier on 29 August 1900, when outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker[aka Butch Cassidy], Harry Longabaugh[aka The Sundance Kid], and two others halted the No. 3 train on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks near Tipton, Wyoming.
7slazenger 1 year ago
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7slazenger 1 year ago
Aghh.. What happened to music..
l3riannaaa 1 year ago
6:30 - Saved by the... Red Riding Hood! :D
On a more serious note, I am glad I 've finally seen this film, I only knew about the famous "shooting at the audience"! I'm grateful I can watch some of the earliest movies and understand the evolution of cinema. Let's see in 100 years from now how many of our beloved films will be remembered this way.
Ginger3012 1 year ago
i love to watch the old silent films from the 1900-1930, and i find it amazing how much tv and movies have evolved from movies like these, to modern movies,
richard199613 1 year ago
Это первый фильм. Тогда кино еще не было развито. Даже киноактеров не было.
Constrructor 1 year ago
boo! the color tinting is gone. that's no good.
dtwhitney 1 year ago
any idea how long the whole movie goes for?? always thought that the worlds first feature film was about Ned Kelly, i think 1906??
taurusgal1983 1 year ago
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At the end of his life, the deadliest gunfighter of the Old West is given a choice: Hell or redemption. He chooses redemption and God's Archangel transports him to modern day Los Angeles to serve bloody, frontier justice on the worst dregs of society.
CallMeBillSeries 1 year ago
Second movie from the 1001 list of movies that I must see before I die. It's funny to watch how the world of cinema began ^^
AnaAnya 1 year ago
do you do film transfers from 35mm to 16mm? and how much would it cost if so?
coreykun667 2 years ago
Filmed in Edison, NJ in 1902. Max First feature film in the world, first western film in history, as well.
Max Aronson was not Broncho Billy Anderson until his Chicago film studio, Essanay, filmed the first Broncho Billy western in 1909--the first western serial and first western film star, in histopry. Anderson-Aronson starred, directed and produced, all on location, with real old west cowboy extras and costumes.
playwrite27nancyg 2 years ago
this was not viewd as a western, the westen genre was not invented at the time. this was viewd upon as a mix of the "railway", the "crime" and the "adventure" genre. this is not the first movie made, but it is one of the first, of course depending on how you define a movie. you need to be aware of the fact that "the industry" was not developed and that the concept of genre when it comes to movies was in its cradle.
lingudah 1 year ago
i got this in blu ray its worth it
it has deleted scenes, director commentary, and tons of other stuff
ManuelDR1969 2 years ago 2
2:33 lol what inappropriate music. And I love how he just flings the guy off the train, so obviously a dummy, you can see where they cut the scene and switch the real guy.
6:37 cute :)
ou I like the dance scene
kiikat 2 years ago
This is so interesting to watch! To think that this was the first silent film, and that audiences were SCARED by this film, they would scream, they were amazed. We sure have come a long way.
I like it :]
btw the I'm sorry but lol at 1:54 does the guy actually get SHOT and fall like THAT? :P
kiikat 2 years ago
This is a classic thanks sooo much for sharing it with us : )
Movieman30002 2 years ago 2
i Was At This Movies 1st Ever Showing in late 1903 .
ilove1994 3 years ago
That's quite impressive for a 14 year old!
Tobiasplease 2 years ago
Oh i am 15 going too be 16 next month.
ilove1994 2 years ago
i just saw this movie in my pop culture class i loved it!!!!
familiavasconez 3 years ago
one of my favorites of all time .
ilove1994 3 years ago
please uplooed more old movies from the New YOrk Era of THe 1890s and 1910s please ? .
ilove1994 3 years ago
wow :D this is amazing, im watching a movie which was made 105 YEARS AGO!
alfredhcy 3 years ago
Please help me out and I will correct it. Most of the time I write the text in the middle of the night when I am tired.
Filmcollectief 3 years ago
easy - Maybe when you can write in complete sentences and use correct spelling for at least one word, we'll take you a little more seriously. Meanwhile, I think this is pretty cool.
calamtykel 3 years ago
oh no stop them from robing the train =0!!!
pivotpeeps79 3 years ago
Hey Thats
#1 Scott Joplin's "Original Rags"(1899)
#2 Edward Elzear "Zez" Confrey's "Kitten On The Keys" They Were Played Slightly Differently.
Morahman7vnNo2 3 years ago
Where Did You Get The Music?
Morahman7vnNo2 3 years ago
Lol, cnt belive ppl stil into these old films, dont get mr wrong its good to see old folks here on the Net because they have seen the World before we have so there shud be respect but i don't belive ppl actually looking in the past in things like this is benificial for anybody.
Peace.
easynowww 3 years ago
It's just fascinating. Is there any purpose in watching anything from any era?
snowwhiterosered 3 years ago
How wrong you are. I still think Buster Keaton was the greatest comedian of all time.
BlindDogFulton 3 years ago
then why are u watching this video?
xxthreepeasinapodxx 3 years ago
very good film im glad its on youtube
earliets parallel action ever I love it
drumgame 4 years ago
Its good of you to share this very old movie.Imagine over 100years old movie still working can't believe it.I hope there will be more and nice music also.
35ams 4 years ago
hail old films!!!!
1900-1929!!
bison1899 4 years ago
I will!!!
Filmcollectief 4 years ago
excellent
CPRGEXROSR 4 years ago
Thanx!
Filmcollectief 4 years ago
Goog you still have these old movie.
binibirotsa 4 years ago
Yes, I still have it. It is not mine but from a friend of me, who has it in his house for over 20 years. Het got it also from someone.
Originally it is without music; I added it.
Regards,
Cor
Filmcollectief 4 years ago