The Great Train Robbery (1903)

[Gibsongeorge]

well this i strange today i was tought that copyright was esablished in 1911 but i see that this is copy righted from 1903 hmmm better tell my teacher that

[tv6886]

the copyrighter is dead so you can copy the muisc

[Jacobowicz]

Great silent movie of the very late 90's, 1890 that is!!

[DarthOxillious]

Whoa, this is one hell of a great film =D 1903, what a year.. First powered flight ever and this short film :)

[flameslave]

Believe it or not thismovie set the way for chase scenes :D

[explodingninja1]

nice movie

[SourApplez1211]

9:14 this guy would be dead by now.

[vtecivicsib18]

This is the first film ever created.. Its amazing people even have this to put on youtube

[guthax20]

Back when cinima was treated as an amuseing parlor trick...

Back when it was nothing more than a moveing comic strip...

Boy have we come a long way...(well not these days, todays movies, much like todays music, simply put: S-U-C-K-S...hard..

[niflap]

Good quality for a 105yo movie.

[wutluck89]

There was no original music. This was a silent film. They didn't put music into a film until Al Jolson's "The Jazz Singer"

[WSenator1]

@wutluck89 - But before "The Jazz Singer" music did accompany silent films. The most prestigous films, in particular, had special, sensitive scores made to accompany the films. BTW - why play jaunty ragtime (even though it was popular then) to a movie about killing, robbery and things like that?

[GreyGeek77]

@WSenator1

BUT, the there was NO sound track on the film itself, like there is today. "Scores" were sheet music that accompanied the film and was marked up with info about when and where to play sections of the score.

[WSenator1]

@GreyGeek77 - I didn't say anything about music on sound tracks for silent movies. I said that there were scores - music written especially for a particular film.

[rlbluver]

why is the music unplugged it is boring without music

[5feethigh]

yeah, I know.. but someone claimed the copyright on the original music and youtube thought it would be cool to disable it.

I'm just curious who could be owning the rights on the music as long as is not even credited and the movie should've been in public domain.

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[guthax20]

Copy right laws are terrible...

Once the creator passes on, the intelectual property should fall into the public domain. As for the decendents who feel they have some sort of ancestral claim to a sucess that is not theres: Fuck em. When an artist or an author creates, he should be aloud to profit off his creation, but once he is no longer alive to protect such rights, his family shouldnt be aloud to cash in...or his "estate" (code word for greedy lawyers)

Thats just my opinion any way...

[GreyGeek77]

@5feethigh

This was a SILENT film. Talkies didn't come till the late 1920's. When these silent films were shown in theaters local talent usually played the piano. Sometimes a small band played. To convey information a screen of text was shown at various times through out the showing.

[TheZeldalink09]

@rlbluver because its from 1903! duh!

[GoldenEclypse]

@TheZeldalink09 it is the first movie ever made by the way when he threw the dummy off the train it was the best part

[pearlchain]

First close up in cinematic history! Great stuff

[1happiness]

Bravo!

[natedoug420]

those guys are hard, i wouldnt mess with em.

[kebler823]

DAMN THUGS!!!

[callmegod666]

Lol,Great vid ;)

[CrazyJustin2006]

love how two passengers can see the robbers tying up the telegrapher yet they do or say nothing about it.

[1agentx]

My god this is real authentic stuff.

[zekemaster88]

cool

[Critterm8tor]

Jesus! Digging deep into the roots of the film industry reveals some kick-ass stuff!

[5feethigh]

yeah mate, great stuff indeed. in the last months I've found myself devoring classics from the early 1900. alot of things to learn from it. I will try to share more of them on the tube.

regards.

[Critterm8tor]

I love that one about going to the moon and the aliens explode just from being tapped. HA! :^)