The Great Train Robbery 1903

I came across this on line and it had no soundtrack whatsoever. After long editing with music and sound effects, this film took on a life of it's own. Normally I would be bringing you comedy, however I enjoyed editing this so much I thought I'd share this with everyone. So, sit back, relax, and enjoy one of the first films ever to tell a story.

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Entertainment

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• silentfilm
• Trains
• oldwest
• funny

[7slazenger]

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]

Edwin S. Porter was flabbergasted when he found out that Anderson conned him about being a horseman: Anderson barely knew how to ride. 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.

[7slazenger]

Scene 9 - Anderson is the 4th train robber who accidentally drops then picks up his saddle bag of stolen loot while crossing a creek; he also has trouble mounting his white horse as the 3rd robber waits for him.

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.

[7slazenger]

Scene 12 (continued)

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]

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]

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.

[BDMchess]

I like what you did with the music. it syncs very well.