Justus D. Barnes in a famous still from The Great Train Robbery
The Great Train Robbery is a 1903western film. The film is only twelve minutes long, but it is a milestone in film making. The film used a number of innovative techniques including parallel editing, camera movement and location shooting. Jump-cuts or cross-cuts were a new, sophisticated editing technique. The film also employed the first pan shots.
The scenes with the gun pointing at the audience and the train rushing towards the audience had audiences at the time screaming in fear, then laughing in relief.
Trainrobbery was a crime that occurred mainly in the middle-to-late 19th century.
In a trainrobbery, the first goal was to steal any money being delivered as cargo.
If the outlaw was unsatisfied with the goods, passengers of the train's carriages (generally unarmed) would be held at gunpoint and made to hand over any valuables they were carrying (usually jewelry or currency).
The scenes with the gun pointing at the audience and the train rushing towards the audience had audiences at the time screaming in fear, then laughing in relief.
The movie was directed and photographed by Edwin S. Porter, a former Thomas Edison cameraman.
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