@TheFrizGirl Absolutely. The coloured frames were filled in frame per frame back then, usually in an atelier made for just that task. Many experiments like colour, widescreen or 3D, were conducted quite early in the moviemaking proces, to be perfected many years later ^^
There was a guy (can't remember the name) that commented the introduction of sound in movies and said "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?". He should have done better to just shut up...
when i look at the end of the film, no wonder where the James bond gun barrel sequences came from. I fucking love youtube! It make you see all the things we never heard from before it.
The first montage ever (in cam by jump cut), the first storyboarded cinema script ever, the first ever pivot of a camera on its axe and the first ever centered shot too were made on this piece of mastery!
hi, my name is john. i am playing the great train rpbbery as a silent film on july 30th 2011 at a church chicken BBQ. i still don't have a copy. can you help me by sending this video to jmpianoman19 @hotmail.com i will use it fir this event only.
hi, my name is john. i am playing the great train rpbbery as a silent film on july 30th 2011 at a church chicken BBQ. i still don't have a copy. can you help me by sending this video to i will use it fir this event only.
My great-great-grandfather said that he didn't like that modern stuff about robbing trains and such. He said back when he was young, he watched masterpieces like Roundhay Garden Scene and Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge.
@BluesBrothersGirl I think Martin Scorsese did a take on that at the end of Goodfellas, where a brief vignette of Joe Pesci in gangster attire shoots at the audience. I know he was greatly influenced by classic movies, especially the Warner Brothers gangster flicks of the thirties. So you can still see to this day the influence early cinema has, and the western and gangster genre has a lot of the same elements.
so amazing how much movie makers have advanced in the creation of film!!! Just think what is next to come!!! Mr. Porter was one of the first film makers to discover the artistic potential of different camera angles
So, how were parts colored? I thought color wasn't introduced to film until the twenties, and didn't gain any popularity until the 30s. Was color added in later?
@Those2menoverthere Yeah, but that shit just makes me mad. IMO anytime b4 the 1970's is some old bullshit. Things are better now, but we haven't reached the mountain top yet.
Watch a Pre-January 8th copy of Inception. Listen closely when the actors say imagine, reality, and safe, or point pistols. You'll hear the words, Loughner, offin' her, part of the word Giffords, and much more. Some even say they hear, do it.
1903 was the worst year ever. Me and my brothers were thrown out of my fathers house because we weren't working at the bakery with him. We didn't know what to do until we found Buck Freeman of the Boston Americans. Everyone had remembered that he hit the most home runs that season. We ran into him at the Onion Oyster House and spoke to him. We ended up telling him our story and he he ended up being a great family friend of ours. So I guess 1903 wasn't that bad at all.... :)
What's the music called, and is it the original soundtrack? (yeah, i know they had a person playing piano live in the cinema, so it's not the original recording, but is it the original song(before the hate))
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If you ever wonder why they look so over dramatic when they get shot it was because the actors where actually from the theater and the theaters where big so they had to do like that. Else people couldn't see so well...
This is actually GREAT! Quite better than some modern films. Not relying too much on CGI. GREAT! BTW. There is a lesson in this. Instead of making people dance, run to a safe house instead!
@OceanwhisperersMusic yeah, nowadays movies have sound and color and are slightly longer and the picture is crystal- clear and you aren't guessing what you are looking at you just recognize it :)
I am taking History of American Cinema right now and in my book I saw an image of the bandit shooting the screen and I recognized it from another favorite western of mine Tombstone! I got really excited and now Im noticing there are other scenes used in Tombstone from this film. The special effects at 2:39 AWESOME!!
This is an amazing moment in film history that everyone should experience so they can gain a bigger appreciation of classic film. So it's really depressing knowing that the next movie by Seltzer and Friedberg will probably get more views than this in only one hour.
Scene 1 — Interior of railroad telegraph office. Two masked robbers enter and compel the operator to set the `signal block' to stop the approaching train, also making him write an order to the engineer to take water at this station....
Scene 2 — At the railroad water tank. The bandit band are seen hiding behind the tank as a train stops to take water (according to false order). Just before she pulls out they stealthily board the train between the express car and the tender.
Scene 1 — Interior of railroad telegraph office. Two masked robbers enter and compel the operator to set the `signal block' to stop the approaching train, also making him write an order to the engineer to take water at this station....
Scene 2 — At the railroad water tank. The bandit band are seen hiding behind the tank as a train stops to take water (according to false order). Just before she pulls out they stealthily board the train between the express car and the tender.
Scene 3 — Interior of express car.... the two robbers have succeeded in effecting an entrance. They enter cautiously. The messenger opens fire on them. A desperate pistol duel takes place, in which the messenger is killed. One of the robbers stands watch while the other tries to open the treasure box. Finding it locked, he searches the messenger for the key. Not finding it, he blows the safe up with dynamite.... [end of part 1]
Scene 4 — The fight on the tender. This thrilling scene was taken from the mail car showing the tender and interior of locomotive cab, while the train is running forty miles an hour....
Scene 6 — Exterior of passenger coaches. The bandits compel the passengers to leave coaches with hands aloft, and line up along the tracks. One of the robbers covers them with large pistols in either hand, while the others ransack travelers' pockets. A passenger makes an attempt to escape, but is instantly shot down....
Scene 7 — The escape. The desperadoes board the locomotive with their booty, command the engineer to start his machine, and disappear in the distance.
Scene 8 — Off to the mountains. The robbers bring the engine to a stop several miles from the scene of the `Hold Up,' and take to the mountains. [end of part 2]
Scene 9 — A beautiful scene in a valley. The bandits come down the side of a hill on a run and cross a narrow stream. Mounting their horses, which were tied to nearby trees, they vanish into the wilderness.
Scene10-Interior of telegraph office. The operator lies bound and gagged on the floor. After a desperate struggle, he succeeds in standing up. Leaning on the table, he telegraphs for assistance by manipulating the key with his chin, and then faints from exhaustion. His little daughter enters, cuts the ropes, and, throwing a glass of water in his face, restores him to consciousness. Arising in a bewildered manner, he suddenly recalls his thrilling experience, and rushes forth to summon assistance
Scene 11 — Interior of a dance hall.... typical Western dance house scene.... Suddenly the door opens and the half dead telegraph operator staggers in. The crowd gathers around him, while he relates what has happened.... The men secure their guns and hastily leave in pursuit of the outlaws.
Scene 12 — The posse in pursuit. Shows the robbers dashing down a rugged mountain at a terrible pace, followed closely by a large posse, both parties firing as they proceed. One of the desperadoes is shot....
Scene 13 — The remaining three bandits, thinking they had eluded their pursuers, have dismounted from their horses.... and begin to examine the contents of the mail bags.... The pursuers, having left their horses, steal noiselessly down upon them until they are completely surrounded. A desperate battle then takes place. After a brave stand, all of the robbers and several of the posse bite the dust.
@matthill14 In 1903 the music would have been played live (resulting in very different music at different screenings); synchronizing sound recordings to film didn't happen until the 1920s
A passenger running toward camera is shot in the back and falls, back up, in full near view of camera. But in this early film no special effects to simulate blood show on his coat back . . . an overlooked detail.
Think, the amount of time between this being filmed from the time the events it's depicting in the old west are minute compared to the time between it being filmed and now.
Yes, thanks. I suppose I wasn't stressing as much the actual event as much as the genre of westerns in cinema. These actors in this film lived lives that overlapped the likes of Billy the Kid and Jesse James like ours overlap the Kennedy assassination and man landing on the moon.
They're nearly the same generation, which overwhelms me when watching this.
@MariktheChao no, the first true narrative films were created by the French magician Mëliës (even though one could argue that the Lumiere Brothers films contain narratives of some sort e.g. train arrives at station, people get off etc.). Take a look at some of Mëliëre's early work: 'The Cabinet of Mephistopheles' (1897); 'Cinderella (1899) and 'The Man with the India-Rubber Head (1901).
@SongsofInnocence - But TGTR was the one to get people to thinking that here was a new form of entertainment worth paying ducats for. There were sound films before "The Jazz Singer," but it was that film that made people think that silent films were tired, and these "talkies" were what they wanted.
great little movie, i always though the famous comanche quanah was in this, but upon further inquiry, that's a recreation of a bank robbery silent film in 1908.
Does any body know what the title of the soundtrack/music in this video is called?
Sifjacobsen 4 days ago
the First film EDITING in the history of CINEMA!
mattecarini 1 week ago
was there colour in the original in 1903??
TheFrizGirl 2 weeks ago
@TheFrizGirl Absolutely. The coloured frames were filled in frame per frame back then, usually in an atelier made for just that task. Many experiments like colour, widescreen or 3D, were conducted quite early in the moviemaking proces, to be perfected many years later ^^
Swassena 2 weeks ago
38 people wish crime payed.
iateyouroppa 1 month ago 2
előző média órán :))))
mika4ever97 1 month ago
There was a guy (can't remember the name) that commented the introduction of sound in movies and said "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?". He should have done better to just shut up...
Lucap1000 1 month ago
when this movie first came out people ran out of the theater screaming because it was so violent for its time.
rgbatheist 1 month ago
goodfellas pays homage to this movie with a similar ending
kolisionn 1 month ago
love it! hahaha!
MaisieIsAwesome 2 months ago
The actors didn't have any problem riding their horses in this movie because this film is so old that is probably how they got to work that morning.
GaussTruth 2 months ago
Damn, this was probably an EXTREMLEY violent movie when it came out
deadwood753100 2 months ago
this is on my list of 1001 movies you must see before you die :)
tharealbige 2 months ago
when i look at the end of the film, no wonder where the James bond gun barrel sequences came from. I fucking love youtube! It make you see all the things we never heard from before it.
Hperman09 2 months ago
aaahh 240p so we meet again!
arashmahjouri 2 months ago
is this the original soundtrack? or different music was added to the picture?
madmaxonliner 2 months ago
It was more like 5000 dollars because films was so rare back then.
DustinS1997 3 months ago
@ahmourani Period films can be expensive.
Phi1618033 3 months ago
Edwin S Porter guys
finalstandx 3 months ago
2:38 ...I'm guessing that was edited? lol
OhMyMariel 3 months ago
This is not in 1080p... How can I watch this?
SleeperInTheShadow 4 months ago 2
@SleeperInTheShadow Lolll
Irockurboots 3 months ago
Lol
winamlikenijas 4 months ago
flipping through the comments and i still can't find an answer to who scored this or where i can find it. moving, in a word. somebody fill us in.
breakfastonpluto 4 months ago
The music is wonderful!
Slowlondon 4 months ago
Awesome music!
Prechtl91 4 months ago
? colors at 2m42
guiofwar 4 months ago
The first montage ever (in cam by jump cut), the first storyboarded cinema script ever, the first ever pivot of a camera on its axe and the first ever centered shot too were made on this piece of mastery!
JoSeVeNJo 4 months ago
i know there are many different scores for this film, but does anyone know who wrote this one?
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CrisNation 5 months ago
the first film with the alternate editing! 109 years ago!
915marco915 5 months ago
holy crap, the pictures, they are MOVING!
halodystroyer44 5 months ago 4
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why some parts have colors?
Ramsas154 5 months ago
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hi, my name is john. i am playing the great train rpbbery as a silent film on july 30th 2011 at a church chicken BBQ. i still don't have a copy. can you help me by sending this video to jmpianoman19 @hotmail.com i will use it fir this event only.
jmpianoman19 6 months ago
hi, my name is john. i am playing the great train rpbbery as a silent film on july 30th 2011 at a church chicken BBQ. i still don't have a copy. can you help me by sending this video to i will use it fir this event only.
jmpianoman19 6 months ago 3
@jmpianoman19 You can download it from archive.org.
feedfam1 6 months ago
wow, I love this! Great use of colour, I especially love the orange smoke from the guns!
TramularConductus 6 months ago
The last scene was awesome, not to mention the music
xXxNarutiie382xXx 6 months ago
08:05 - Best dance. LOL!
narcoticvanity 6 months ago
Great quality for a 109 year old movie.
ziggycat999 6 months ago
@Grey000 It's hand-tinting of the cells
jonnyfivealive 6 months ago
The last scene inspired the Gunbarrel sequnce for James Bond Apparently....
dazzsheil 6 months ago
last stand
samsung074 6 months ago
I'm sure a bunch of people must have asked this already but what's with the colorization?
Grey000 6 months ago
@Grey000 Really? this movie was from 1903.
abbyisbeansy 6 months ago
Is it me, or should the theaters in RDR have had this movie and others playing other than those political caroons.
1Morey 7 months ago
movies have evolved so much over time
TheRickiebobby 7 months ago
the last shot is so awesome!
MrLouKaas 7 months ago
who cares how good the graphics are or how good the acting is just use your imagination
alienbigfoot15698 7 months ago
here because of rdr
achmed6704 7 months ago
You gotta love the art of Film Editing.
ThePenitentMan1 7 months ago
Think how fascinated people must have been when they saw this.
TheWhistler3 7 months ago 3
man i bet the wild west was still sort of around when this was filmed, even though it was dying
darkwolftheavenger 7 months ago
MAN, THIS IS ACTING!
asmdann 7 months ago
This films demonstrated the evil of mans' innermonst adversary survival and the darkness of the old west.
bholsten1 8 months ago
What Music is this? I NEED to know!
b1b1b1b1able 8 months ago
What Music is this? I NEED to know!
b1b1b1b1able 8 months ago
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The greatest story ever told!
Gokulio7 8 months ago
At 7:41 - That's right: Party hearty - like it's 1903!
WSenator1 8 months ago
What is the music in this video? I really need to know, because I have a report next week on this.
Killbotfactory 8 months ago
02:12 The Best Death scene EVAR!
sonicgold25 8 months ago 61
@sonicgold25 04:54 's not bad either!
shreyg 7 months ago
My great-great-grandfather said that he didn't like that modern stuff about robbing trains and such. He said back when he was young, he watched masterpieces like Roundhay Garden Scene and Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge.
artman40 8 months ago 27
@artman40 lol
SonicTheAk 4 months ago
@artman40 LOL
FienStudios 1 week ago
so good film!
koisumaz2000 9 months ago
I don't really know why...but, the last few seconds of him shooting at the audience always chills me a bit. I really don't know why, though.
BluesBrothersGirl 9 months ago 2
@BluesBrothersGirl I think Martin Scorsese did a take on that at the end of Goodfellas, where a brief vignette of Joe Pesci in gangster attire shoots at the audience. I know he was greatly influenced by classic movies, especially the Warner Brothers gangster flicks of the thirties. So you can still see to this day the influence early cinema has, and the western and gangster genre has a lot of the same elements.
cyrilmaude 8 months ago 2
colored by hand painting each frame on the actual film reel
mynameiskylelessard 9 months ago
Outro clássico de Edwin S. Porter. Ah esse eu assisti na BHC da USP.
beirada 9 months ago
so amazing how much movie makers have advanced in the creation of film!!! Just think what is next to come!!! Mr. Porter was one of the first film makers to discover the artistic potential of different camera angles
jemohseni 9 months ago
So, how were parts colored? I thought color wasn't introduced to film until the twenties, and didn't gain any popularity until the 30s. Was color added in later?
brandon91616 10 months ago
@brandon91616
Wikipedia says it's "hand-colored" after the scene has been shot, whatever that means.
FelixTheBarbarian 9 months ago
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saw this in film class
Rosstacular 10 months ago
Yeah 1903 was a great year... for whites. Us blacks were still in the struggle and yet no one comments on that. FUCK 1903 that bullshit time.
mannymatrixofwar2 10 months ago
@mannymatrixofwar2 Just be glad that it isn't like that today, that's all I can say. (yes I'm white)
Those2menoverthere 9 months ago
@Those2menoverthere Yeah, but that shit just makes me mad. IMO anytime b4 the 1970's is some old bullshit. Things are better now, but we haven't reached the mountain top yet.
mannymatrixofwar2 9 months ago
@mannymatrixofwar2 That's totally true.
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Watch a Pre-January 8th copy of Inception. Listen closely when the actors say imagine, reality, and safe, or point pistols. You'll hear the words, Loughner, offin' her, part of the word Giffords, and much more. Some even say they hear, do it.
jamestargetedindiv 10 months ago
1903 was the worst year ever. Me and my brothers were thrown out of my fathers house because we weren't working at the bakery with him. We didn't know what to do until we found Buck Freeman of the Boston Americans. Everyone had remembered that he hit the most home runs that season. We ran into him at the Onion Oyster House and spoke to him. We ended up telling him our story and he he ended up being a great family friend of ours. So I guess 1903 wasn't that bad at all.... :)
LabCabInElCajon 10 months ago 2
why are some of the parts colored and some are not
meloveu1ongtime 10 months ago
lol the door at 1:08
webaward 10 months ago
OMG NO 1080P
ppolo12 10 months ago 3
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1903...Such an awesome time! No computers, internet, phones, gas station, arab nations to worry about, OH MAN! Them were the days
pathtek4 10 months ago 26
@pathtek4 until world war 1 and 2 and also the spanish flu.... them were the days ;)
jack29292 9 months ago
@pathtek4 and the effects was awesome
legoman769 9 months ago
@pathtek4 WW2???
Velk3 9 months ago
@Velk3 That happened a while after... WW1 is a bit more accurate.
UldamanPathory 8 months ago
@pathtek4 yeah. just sex and beer. we can live with that. lol.
nicoykolokoy 9 months ago
@pathtek4 - No phones? They were becoming common by 1903! The White House had one in 1878.
OldsVistaCruiser 8 months ago 2
@OldsVistaCruiser I think he means cell phones
ClassicHorrorDB 7 months ago
@pathtek4 Well as far as the arab nations are concerned, the ottoman empire still controlled the majority of the arab world.
BackwardAssassin 8 months ago
@pathtek4 Nope... just poor labor conditions, rights to only the white males, and virtually no workers rights.
lizardlord4k 8 months ago
@pathtek4 haha, instead you had to worry about 16 hour work days and starving
Sovietangel 8 months ago 2
@pathtek4 there were phones and arab nations back then, just not cell phones, and not arab nations with terrorists in them
darkwolftheavenger 7 months ago
Watch this in 1911 format for ultimate redundancy in style... XD
TheHumanDirigible 10 months ago 2
What's the music called, and is it the original soundtrack? (yeah, i know they had a person playing piano live in the cinema, so it's not the original recording, but is it the original song(before the hate))
MaggiJR 10 months ago
@MaggiJR I want to know too! It is awesome!
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jacksongogo 10 months ago
If you ever wonder why they look so over dramatic when they get shot it was because the actors where actually from the theater and the theaters where big so they had to do like that. Else people couldn't see so well...
Calle299 10 months ago
Gobble gobble gobble gobble so highhhhhhh
QualityGamersCinema 10 months ago
Oh yes, I rember these days.
RapIsVooDooMusic 10 months ago
At this time, were such a strong example to countries around the world. Now we are just a laughing stock.
What are we doing, America?
AbsintheGlasses 10 months ago
0:54 I guess the robbers wanted to do some good old bondage
Magniton1 10 months ago
This is a wonderful piece of film history that should never be forgotten, the score doesn't seem to match correctly though.
deraifu 10 months ago
I watched this with the 1911 filter lol
Tekkenfreek234 10 months ago 3
HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAA 4:56
Calle299 10 months ago
what is the significance of the woman in the yellow dress?
HisNameWasRobin 10 months ago
@HisNameWasRobin - Maybe the woman in the yellow dress was the hottie of the bunch.
WSenator1 9 months ago 2
WOW thanks so much for uploading this! The very first Western movie!
righteousgroove 10 months ago
@righteousgroove also the first movie with a story
justinssite 10 months ago
is this a film version of the Great train robbery book, written by Michael Crichton?
AlimraAmiko 10 months ago
@AlimraAmiko WDF Micheal Chrichton wasn't born yet
matthewlimma 10 months ago
This is actually GREAT! Quite better than some modern films. Not relying too much on CGI. GREAT! BTW. There is a lesson in this. Instead of making people dance, run to a safe house instead!
zeron82411 10 months ago
I don't think there were any Paris Hiltons types then. Nothing but loser actors/actresses today.
DetroitLove4U 10 months ago 3
People in 1906 must've shat bricks
chethebadass 11 months ago
They dont make films like this anymore!! :D
OceanwhisperersMusic 11 months ago
@OceanwhisperersMusic yeah, nowadays movies have sound and color and are slightly longer and the picture is crystal- clear and you aren't guessing what you are looking at you just recognize it :)
sunflower983 11 months ago
4:20 where do all that people come from?
kefke96bf2 11 months ago
The jolly music during the fight cracks me up lol
PhotoFilmPlay 11 months ago
I wonder when the last train robbery was???? I haven't heard of any for the life of me I've been around.
DetroitLove4U 11 months ago
Who added in the special effects at 2:40
ehcbucks10 11 months ago
@ehcbucks10 The creators of the film did. Some of the scenes were hand colored. Like coloring directly onto film i think. Either that or rotoscoping.
AustinLikesPepsi 10 months ago
Is it original music for this movie?
bosz112 11 months ago
I am taking History of American Cinema right now and in my book I saw an image of the bandit shooting the screen and I recognized it from another favorite western of mine Tombstone! I got really excited and now Im noticing there are other scenes used in Tombstone from this film. The special effects at 2:39 AWESOME!!
frankiefrank1231 11 months ago
This is an amazing moment in film history that everyone should experience so they can gain a bigger appreciation of classic film. So it's really depressing knowing that the next movie by Seltzer and Friedberg will probably get more views than this in only one hour.
MatthewLedZepfan 11 months ago
Does anyone know what the music piece is called? It's beautiful. Thanks for any help.
RollingSlyFunk 11 months ago
thay did a good job consitering that was the first movie ever
eakins01 1 year ago
An Explanation:
Scene 1 — Interior of railroad telegraph office. Two masked robbers enter and compel the operator to set the `signal block' to stop the approaching train, also making him write an order to the engineer to take water at this station....
Scene 2 — At the railroad water tank. The bandit band are seen hiding behind the tank as a train stops to take water (according to false order). Just before she pulls out they stealthily board the train between the express car and the tender.
duiarmia 1 year ago
@duiarmia Wikipedia writes a great summary, doesn't it? :)
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An Explanation:
Scene 1 — Interior of railroad telegraph office. Two masked robbers enter and compel the operator to set the `signal block' to stop the approaching train, also making him write an order to the engineer to take water at this station....
Scene 2 — At the railroad water tank. The bandit band are seen hiding behind the tank as a train stops to take water (according to false order). Just before she pulls out they stealthily board the train between the express car and the tender.
duiarmia 1 year ago
Scene 3 — Interior of express car.... the two robbers have succeeded in effecting an entrance. They enter cautiously. The messenger opens fire on them. A desperate pistol duel takes place, in which the messenger is killed. One of the robbers stands watch while the other tries to open the treasure box. Finding it locked, he searches the messenger for the key. Not finding it, he blows the safe up with dynamite.... [end of part 1]
duiarmia 1 year ago
Scene 4 — The fight on the tender. This thrilling scene was taken from the mail car showing the tender and interior of locomotive cab, while the train is running forty miles an hour....
Scene 5 — The train uncoupled....
duiarmia 1 year ago
Scene 6 — Exterior of passenger coaches. The bandits compel the passengers to leave coaches with hands aloft, and line up along the tracks. One of the robbers covers them with large pistols in either hand, while the others ransack travelers' pockets. A passenger makes an attempt to escape, but is instantly shot down....
Scene 7 — The escape. The desperadoes board the locomotive with their booty, command the engineer to start his machine, and disappear in the distance.
duiarmia 1 year ago
Scene 8 — Off to the mountains. The robbers bring the engine to a stop several miles from the scene of the `Hold Up,' and take to the mountains. [end of part 2]
Scene 9 — A beautiful scene in a valley. The bandits come down the side of a hill on a run and cross a narrow stream. Mounting their horses, which were tied to nearby trees, they vanish into the wilderness.
duiarmia 1 year ago
Scene10-Interior of telegraph office. The operator lies bound and gagged on the floor. After a desperate struggle, he succeeds in standing up. Leaning on the table, he telegraphs for assistance by manipulating the key with his chin, and then faints from exhaustion. His little daughter enters, cuts the ropes, and, throwing a glass of water in his face, restores him to consciousness. Arising in a bewildered manner, he suddenly recalls his thrilling experience, and rushes forth to summon assistance
duiarmia 1 year ago
Scene 11 — Interior of a dance hall.... typical Western dance house scene.... Suddenly the door opens and the half dead telegraph operator staggers in. The crowd gathers around him, while he relates what has happened.... The men secure their guns and hastily leave in pursuit of the outlaws.
Scene 12 — The posse in pursuit. Shows the robbers dashing down a rugged mountain at a terrible pace, followed closely by a large posse, both parties firing as they proceed. One of the desperadoes is shot....
duiarmia 1 year ago
Scene 13 — The remaining three bandits, thinking they had eluded their pursuers, have dismounted from their horses.... and begin to examine the contents of the mail bags.... The pursuers, having left their horses, steal noiselessly down upon them until they are completely surrounded. A desperate battle then takes place. After a brave stand, all of the robbers and several of the posse bite the dust.
duiarmia 1 year ago
Scene 14 — Realism. Full frame of Barnes, leader of the outlaw band, taking aim and firing point blank at the audience.
duiarmia 1 year ago
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duiarmia 1 year ago
Thumbs up if you think this is better then Avatar!
uralegend987 1 year ago 106
@uralegend987 isnt a real copetition is it?^^
Nik121294 8 months ago
Is this music composed after the film was made it sounds to modern for 1903? i dont mean modern like today
matthill14 1 year ago
@matthill14 In 1903 the music would have been played live (resulting in very different music at different screenings); synchronizing sound recordings to film didn't happen until the 1920s
JettriderRS 1 year ago
Goodfellas had a great homage to this...
AandR1408 1 year ago
good to see old stuff like this....CRACKWOOD the movie!!!!
megashuttlecock 1 year ago
wasn't that ladies dress in colour in the dancing scene?
iiDamooHD 1 year ago
@iiDamooHD they had to physically paint each frame of the film to add colour... hence its minimal, but creative use...
cnesdad 1 year ago
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cnesdad 1 year ago
A passenger running toward camera is shot in the back and falls, back up, in full near view of camera. But in this early film no special effects to simulate blood show on his coat back . . . an overlooked detail.
JudgeJulieLit 1 year ago
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cnesdad 1 year ago
the train in the window was done is a separate shot. im learning about this. im so proud of myself haha
shialover777 1 year ago
wow pensar que los efectos eran pintados manualmente en el fotograma
bluedemoncmll 1 year ago
dramatic death
Blocklandbrian498 1 year ago
107 years old...amazing.
CutandPrintFilms 1 year ago 2
All those people against one man. MAN i WOULD HAVE THREW A ROCK AT HIS ASS.
UsedXEyeliner 1 year ago
@UsedXEyeliner . . .and he woulda blown a hole right through your head, too!
WSenator1 1 year ago
@WSenator1
Man,forget him and his old ass gun. TEAM WORK makes the dream work.
UsedXEyeliner 1 year ago
does anyone know the name of this song??
Elfosng 1 year ago
It's the first Cowboy film though
SongsofInnocence 1 year ago
Source: Cook, David A.; 'A History of Narrative Film'; Fourth Edition (2004); pp. 13-24
SongsofInnocence 1 year ago
His film 'A Trip to the Moon' (1902) predates this film by one year and can be considered the first internationally successful narrative film.
SongsofInnocence 1 year ago
just throw him off the train....
SongsofInnocence 1 year ago
lol that was too funny
UsedXEyeliner 1 year ago
back in the cowboy time
krollaostmedburger 1 year ago
Think, the amount of time between this being filmed from the time the events it's depicting in the old west are minute compared to the time between it being filmed and now.
TheJediCharles 1 year ago
@TheJediCharles The actual events took place circa 3 years before filming.
cdestroy 1 year ago
@cdestroy
Yes, thanks. I suppose I wasn't stressing as much the actual event as much as the genre of westerns in cinema. These actors in this film lived lives that overlapped the likes of Billy the Kid and Jesse James like ours overlap the Kennedy assassination and man landing on the moon.
They're nearly the same generation, which overwhelms me when watching this.
TheJediCharles 1 year ago
I read somewhere in a book that this was the first movie ever made that had a story. Is that true?
MariktheChao 1 year ago
@MariktheChao It's true.
cdestroy 1 year ago
@MariktheChao no, the first true narrative films were created by the French magician Mëliës (even though one could argue that the Lumiere Brothers films contain narratives of some sort e.g. train arrives at station, people get off etc.). Take a look at some of Mëliëre's early work: 'The Cabinet of Mephistopheles' (1897); 'Cinderella (1899) and 'The Man with the India-Rubber Head (1901).
SongsofInnocence 1 year ago
@SongsofInnocence - But TGTR was the one to get people to thinking that here was a new form of entertainment worth paying ducats for. There were sound films before "The Jazz Singer," but it was that film that made people think that silent films were tired, and these "talkies" were what they wanted.
WSenator1 1 year ago
4:03 can someone count the people that must have been in the train? :-)
lega2108 1 year ago
i imagine this was quite shocking for its time
blablaman233 1 year ago
the numbers on the train dissapear
willowgirl101 1 year ago
What a brilliant, beautiful classic!! THE film that inspired the Warner Bros. to get into filmmaking.
thenudo 1 year ago
1903 was a big year- the first narrative movie came out, the Wright brothers made their first flight, and Ford began selling their first cars.
maxpowers518 1 year ago 15
i would love to see this on the big screen!!
bkgartist 1 year ago
Thank goodness there's wikipedia to tell us what's going on :D
Envergure 1 year ago
great little movie, i always though the famous comanche quanah was in this, but upon further inquiry, that's a recreation of a bank robbery silent film in 1908.