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Thanks for the nice quality! I was really suprised when i got started with pre 1930 movies that they are quiet modern in terms of violence, nudity and cinematagrophy.
@Arian Cruz Ponce lol i remember getting that when I was a teenager before our house had internet. Was a useful resource before having imdb, internet lists, aggregate review scores etc. to guide me, definitely read it cover to cover a few times.
Apparently the last shot was considered really scary and may have inspired the James Bond gunbarrell And was also probably the first ever fourth-wall break in film
The second Great Train Robbery was in 1978. smile.amazon.com/Great-Train-Robbery-Sean-Connery/dp/B00LC4PDIC/ref=tmm_dvd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1606005659&sr=8-2
You jest, but the way it’s been lately, I would not at all be surprised to read tomorrow that a reboot/sequel to this was being talked about. Nothing can just be left alone anymore.
100 years ago this made with a limited amount of film and was physically edited in a room. 100 years later it is immortalized on the internet where it is at its most accessible. Fascinating...
The bandit without a mustache at 3:35, the passenger that runs and gets shot at 4:45, and the fancy dancer in the derby hat at 8:13 are all played by the same actor, Broncho Billy Anderson. In 1958, he received an Honorary Academy Award as a "motion picture pioneer" for his "contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment."
@@calebhu6383 I mean Western movies today are based in the past obviously and they feel distant, but in this movie it's the present because it was actually made in that era, they're not trying to capture a long gone era because IT IS that era. Outlaws and gunslingers were a real thing when this was made.
@@PaTRpU99 Doesn't seem that crazy to me. Movies have always been drawn off of events of their time, there were tons of WW2 movies made during WW2, there were movies about the Cold War during the Cold War.
10:26 That "breaking the fourth wall" scene last scene with the man aiming and firing his pistol has been homaged in everything ranging from The final closing shot of Joe Peschi in Martin Scorsese's movie Goodfellas to Alan Moore's comic book series about the history of movies and film Cinema Purgatorio.
It's crazy to think when this made, Butch Cassidey and the Sundance kid were still out there. Wyatt Earp was still alive. And Billy the kid and Jesse James died just 20 years earlier.
@KororaPenguin Yeah, I've Got A Secret. The man was Samuel J Seymour and he was the last survivng witness to that event. It's one of my favorite game show clips.
i don't see how that's fascinating. crime still exists, trains still exist... and that's about it for context. and the linear narrative is still the most common way to tell a story
@@huh968 I think that what he means is how this film didn't have the cards with text and told its story though the use of acting and not by words or text
The 1:45 shot appears as though the train is traveling at full speed but in the 2:41 shot, the train is clearly moving more slowly. I'm guessing we're to infer that the conductor heard the gunshots and is bringing the train to a halt as a result?
As mentioned in other comments, it's great that we can watch this 120 years later. But (if civilization lasts) just imagine how people in the far future would feel, say 500 years from now or even 2,000 years from now being able to watch movies from 'ancient times'.
00:19 and again at 00:40 Slight plothole. Passengers in arriving train could see the robbers through the window and should have alerted railroad employees in particular the "bulls" railroads hired to deal with just this type of thing. 00:30 Tickettaker is pistol whipped 1:45 Train at least appears to be moving at full speed based on the scenery through the open sidecar. 2:33 Pyrotechnic effect (robber explodes the safe) 2:41 Train slowing down as robbers advance toward the engine 2:51 Boiler stoker comes out armed with his shovel to fight a losing battle with the crooks. Between 3:00 and 3:03 they switch out the actor playing the stoker with a pretty obvious prop dummy which is hurled off the train at 3:09 3:55 I have no way to verify this but another commenter indicated this was atypical in most train robberies at the time: The robbers would simply have the seated passengers surrender their valuables instead of going to the trouble of making them get out of the locomotive first. Presumably, Edwin Porter did this to have a reason to include the shooting of a fleeing passenger at 4:48 That actor is a more convincing corpse than the mail clerk (who I assume we are to believe died, if not by gunfire then by shrapnel from the safe explosion) 5:36 Loading the ill-gotten gain into the engine 6:10 The getaway! 7:03 Meanwhile, back at the ticket office the ticket taker attempts to send an S. O.S. 7:52 Square dance time 8:12 "Here's how a REAL man does it..." 8:48 Sounding the alarm 9:42 Final showdown 10:26 Breaking the "fourth wall"
@@arianam3720 It's when actors acknowledge the presence of the camera by reacting to it directly. An example would be any time that "Jim" on the U.S. version of The Office reacted to one of Dwight's crazier pronouncements by turning to the camera and raising an eyebrow.
According to articles I've read online in Post magazine, the accompaniment of piano or organ didn't become popular until the teens. And as these early silent movies were often shown in Vaudeville houses, they would have sound effects in order to add as much realism as possible. The Great Train Robbery is considered the first "blockbuster." The article states it should not be viewed so much for its innovation, but rather its promulgation of the media type.
The Great Train Robbery (1903), de Edwin S. Porter, é considerado como “o primeiro filme realmente cinematográfico pela fluidez e coerência da narrativa” (CANELAS). E foi esse diferencial contido em tal obra (o da narrativa sendo fortalecida através da justaposição de planos) um dos fatores responsáveis por levar o cinema a ocupar a posição que detém hoje, de “arte de contar uma estória através de imagens dispostas em uma sucessão de cenas precisamente organizadas."
Thanks for posting this. This cut has a few more seconds than my DVD has, where the train office clerk wakes up and tries to use the telegraph, mine just cuts from the forest shot of the bandits, to the clerk unconscious and the girl comes through the door. This print was also struck from a hand tinted prints, Great film overall, thanks again for posting.
Thanks, I've been meaning to combine this print with one that still has the colour tints although it's a little complex given how different the other versions are in terms of length and frame-rate.
that's probably the only reason this isn't considered the first western, it wasn't set in the time period on purpose, they just happened to make a movie during the last decade or so of the actual west!
@A Fridge Too Far really no, the wild west ended oficially in 1910-1912 when a there was no clear frontier in the continental US, also, when the last territories in the west acquired statehood
@@renex_g3915 i would say the wild west actually ended by the time riding horses stopped being a thing and women stopped wearing those fancy royalty-like dresses, around 1918ish
6:10 is shot on the old Lackawanna Railroad in Totowa, NJ. It is now part of I-80. You can see the Passaic River below when the robbers are running down the hill.
I find it cool that this wasn't a historical movie about the past when it came out. It was about events that happened during those times, and not some historical cowboy outlaw film.
David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 - July 23, 1948) was an American film director. Widely considered as the most important filmmaker of his generation, he pioneered financing of the feature-length movie. His film The Birth of a Nation (1915) made investors a profit, but also attracted much controversy, as it depicted African Americans in a negative light and glorified the Ku Klux Klan. Together with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks he founded United Artists, enabling them to control their own interests, rather than depending on commercial studios.
I Rembered when this was released. Life was simple and sweet. I voted for Roosevelt Theaters ran a special of popcorn and coke for a penny. The good ol days
The Great Train Robbery, I read about this while typing a paper for my Communications class and after watching the movie, it’s beyond interesting. Now, I rewatched it for my Film 1895 to 1945 class and it’s a good look into how film was first made, especially with it also using cuts and different angles.
This film was the first film ever to tell a complete story from beginning to end. Previous films were nothing more than a sene from every day life shown before the camera. Hence the term living pictures. When it debuted it caused a sensation in America and around the world no one had ever seen anything quite like it. The director Edwin s porter said years later the first night it was shown in New York they had to push people out the door and tell them to go home. They wanted to watch it over and over again. He New by that he had a hit. It set the standard for all other films for the next several years.
The spot where they cross the river at 6:45 is within South Mountain Reservation in Millburn NJ. It is the West Branch of the Rahway River. Called "Thistle Mill Ford". I was there today!
Robbers usually didn't take the time to empty out the passenger coaches. They robbed the passengers as they sat. Otherwise, good depiction of a generic train robbery.
10:26 this was the inspiratio for Tommy firing a gun at the camera at the end of Goodfellas. Not sure if anybody in the comment section said it yet. Probably. But pretty cool
I was invited to the premiere of this film when it came out. I got autographs from some of the actors and the director also. It was a grand party. We all got high and merry... This film was a major box office success back then and money was flowing like water. Good times!
En sintesis la pelicula trata de un robo organizado del siglo 19 demostrando el modo operandi de los malechores, igualmente aparce la inigualable sensibilidad del ser humano al ser apuntado con un arma, imaginar que esta pelicula es la iniciante en el genero de la pantalla verde, cuyo uso en la actualidad es usado en cada programa del mundo, en películas que te sorprenden con cada maravilla de sus aventuras. Es un honor poder ver este video, lamentable que no muchas personas no aprecien este arte.....
Always loved the color of Silent Films. Tints, tones, hand-painted frames in some cases (Trip to the Moon). It's something that we lost for a while in Sound films because that was too expensive to do when they already had to spend budgets on shooting sound. Meaning we lost color until the 30s, and lost widespread color film until the late 50s. Hurting more was that the color of Silent Films wasn't preserved for a while, leaving most Public Domain prints in B&W even though that wasn't intentional, and leading to a false perception that attempts to colorize Silent Films is somehow a modern trend "ruining classic films" (The colorized restoration of Trip to the Moon was controversial for having color... even though the film DID have color when it was first made and the restoration was actually a faithful recreation). Even then, the surreal tints, tones, and paints used in Silent Films just look so pleasing to me even compared against true color. You wanna see a great usage of them, watch the 1995 restoration of Nosferatu. Not the 2006 restoration (Which over-did it with over-saturated colors that killed the atmosphere). It's gorgeous.
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Why were there no talking
Because There Were No Talkies In 1903!!
Thanks for the nice quality! I was really suprised when i got started with pre 1930 movies that they are quiet modern in terms of violence, nudity and cinematagrophy.
WHO'S WATCHING THIS 116 YEARS LATER?
Me
You did, apparently.
Fucking me man
I am. This is film history - without the pioneers there would be no movies.
@Arian Cruz Ponce lol i remember getting that when I was a teenager before our house had internet. Was a useful resource before having imdb, internet lists, aggregate review scores etc. to guide me, definitely read it cover to cover a few times.
Only the 1900s kids will remember.
In 1982 we had a little better quality though
Raid VerVe r/wooosh
@@MTHRebirth boulderdash. I remember some fine and dandy picture quality when watching this in the theater in 1903, you young whippersnapper.
@@alvexok5523 lol😂
I think this is 1930s
The fact that we get the privilege to watch this 117 years later is astonishing
ikr
118 now, 4 more years until we pass the oldest person confirmed
Especially since so many silent films of the 1910s and 1920s have been lost to history.
Oh to be able to travel back in time......
sad thing is there are so many movies from that time which are lost forever
Fun fact, the classical piece played at 0:35, titled “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” was only around 25 years old at release of this film.
Holy shit... this really helps put in perspective just how long of a time ago this was made
God, it's so weird to think about.
Certified hood classic
lol for them it was like listening to the Spice Girls or something
I hear no one wanted to watch this moving picture show on account of the pop music.
What blows my mind is that this is a "western movie" that came out while the wild west was still a thing
Baul from Yellow Submarine-Gun?
Yes, it's Paul from Yellow Submarine
***that means it's just a movie***
@@thethrillofpattaya8404 not really, if a war film is made during the war, is it a war movie still or “just a movie”?
I think some used former out laws as stunt men/actors is Interesting
THERE’S ALWAYS A GODDAMN TRAIN
HAVE SOME FAITH ARTHUR!
I HAVE A GODDAMN PLAN
Johnny Cash would agree.
200th like
Good performance Arthur
Apparently the last shot was considered really scary and may have inspired the James Bond gunbarrell
And was also probably the first ever fourth-wall break in film
It had to of I just watched all 24 its similar
That last shot caused panic in audiences at the time. There wasn't a dry seat in the house.
Definitely inspired the last shot in Goodfellas - of Joe Pesci shooting at the audience
With 100,000's of extras !!!!!!.
Untied by red riding Hood.
I bet audiences back in the day lost their shit during the final scene
@@hakdok649 your link looks funny to me, it says youtu instead of youtube
@@philcassidy3823click it no balls
@@philcassidy3823r u dumb
This was probably like an Avengers post credit scene for them lmao
who has been waiting 116 years for the great train robbery (part II)? I think you're definitely in heaven right now may God bless your soul Rip
Hahahaha
The second Great Train Robbery was in 1978.
smile.amazon.com/Great-Train-Robbery-Sean-Connery/dp/B00LC4PDIC/ref=tmm_dvd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1606005659&sr=8-2
I hope it stars Clint Eastwood !!
You jest, but the way it’s been lately, I would not at all be surprised to read tomorrow that a reboot/sequel to this was being talked about. Nothing can just be left alone anymore.
@@aaronstark5060 😄👍
2:06 give this man an oscar
They didn't have Oscars in 1903. 1929 was when the the first Oscar ceremony took place.
@@stephenholloway6893 unfortunate, that was the *best act I've ever seen!*
"Give this man an Oscar" 😂🤣😅🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😅
@@stephenholloway6893 we know
@@stephenholloway6893 Nothing gets past you, huh?
100 years ago this made with a limited amount of film and was physically edited in a room. 100 years later it is immortalized on the internet where it is at its most accessible. Fascinating...
The bandit without a mustache at 3:35, the passenger that runs and gets shot at 4:45, and the fancy dancer in the derby hat at 8:13 are all played by the same actor, Broncho Billy Anderson. In 1958, he received an Honorary Academy Award as a "motion picture pioneer" for his "contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment."
Just think that this mini movie was made before the event of the titanic and the 1st and 2nd world war. How cool is that?
Yeah, it's actually contemporary with the old west! Train robberies like this were very much still a thing in 1904.
Ollies Channel your ancestors
Before the great depression, the roaring 20s, the noir era, hell the wild west/new frontier was still going on during this time.
ikr
And the United States only had 45 states instead of 50.
WHOS WATCHING THIS BANGER 120 YEARS LATER!?
Crazy to think this was actually made in the western era. So it's a movie based in current times when it was filmed.
That's like a lot of movies though?
@@calebhu6383 I mean Western movies today are based in the past obviously and they feel distant, but in this movie it's the present because it was actually made in that era, they're not trying to capture a long gone era because IT IS that era. Outlaws and gunslingers were a real thing when this was made.
@@Streetw1s3r No, I mean there are plenty of movies based on current events and recent happenings. That's what a lot of movies are.
@@calebhu6383 but we consider the old west to be so long ago and this movie was made at the time it still existed, that’s the point
@@PaTRpU99 Doesn't seem that crazy to me. Movies have always been drawn off of events of their time, there were tons of WW2 movies made during WW2, there were movies about the Cold War during the Cold War.
10:26 That "breaking the fourth wall" scene last scene with the man aiming and firing his pistol has been homaged in everything ranging from The final closing shot of Joe Peschi in Martin Scorsese's movie Goodfellas to Alan Moore's comic book series about the history of movies and film Cinema Purgatorio.
peschi
@@emilal Pesci
@@Lucius1958 Peshy
Peschi
Pepsi
I wish modern movies were as entertaining as this. This is just a Red Dead mission
Fun fact: there's only one person still alive today from the year this short was made.
Kane Tanaka, still kicking at 118.
Edit: Welp, RIP Kane.
I was just going to say the same thing brother
Still alive 😊
She’s 119 now
its still alive my dude tanaka?
She died
It's crazy to think when this made, Butch Cassidey and the Sundance kid were still out there. Wyatt Earp was still alive. And Billy the kid and Jesse James died just 20 years earlier.
And people were still alive to remember the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination!
@@orbison
Apparently there was a show in the 50's that actually interviewed a witness to Lincoln's murder.
@KororaPenguin Yeah, I've Got A Secret. The man was Samuel J Seymour and he was the last survivng witness to that event. It's one of my favorite game show clips.
Wyatt Earp lived enough to know John Wayne, who copied his manners.
the fact it's almost 120 years since this and we can still watch is amazing
Fascinating that over a century later, anyone can watch this film and fully understand the plot and story line without any loss of context.
i don't see how that's fascinating. crime still exists, trains still exist... and that's about it for context. and the linear narrative is still the most common way to tell a story
@@huh968
I think that what he means is how this film didn't have the cards with text and told its story though the use of acting and not by words or text
120 years young this year. A film with a lot of character and charm.
And as groundbreaking in its day as Peter Jackson's _Lord of the Rings_ trilogy would be a hundred years later.
2:06- he gets shot, stands up, does a twist, *then* falls dead. 🤣
that’s just how people died in 1903
@@betterversionn Touché
Best death ever 😂
A very noble NPC death indeed.
Spaghetti westerns did it better.
This is why I am grateful for UA-cam
1:29 The first ever camera pan in the history of cinema.
zepps88 I’m afraid that honor belongs to Edison’s film Fifth Avenue, New York from six years before this!
OH
MY
GOD
@@lukebailey1659 ***wow***why be afraid Luke?***
3:09 damn he is strong
Yea xD
HELP SIDIEO
I was there in the movie theatre it was crazy good ol’ days
That’s such a lie! this came out 117 years ago you idiot, stop friking lying this was the first movie ever made and you are dumb internet kid
@@henryreyes9798 yo its just a joke lmao
The shot at 1:45 is breathtaking for its time. Also, the scene at 2:41.
The 1:45 shot appears as though the train is traveling at full speed but in the 2:41 shot, the train is clearly moving more slowly. I'm guessing we're to infer that the conductor heard the gunshots and is bringing the train to a halt as a result?
Brilliant.
Better cinematography than some modern movies lol
They actually are really good shots, yeah
This was when The Wild West hasn't even ended
This was just a normal heist film
yeah, making a movie being set in the wild west in 1900s/1910s would be like making a movie set in the 1990s in the 202X
@@overpricedhealthcare I mean I'm sure that movie was set in their time, in the early 1900s.
@@elias7748 that's kinda what i said
Yeah, it was a straight-up crime drama.
As mentioned in other comments, it's great that we can watch this 120 years later. But (if civilization lasts) just imagine how people in the far future would feel, say 500 years from now or even 2,000 years from now being able to watch movies from 'ancient times'.
00:19 and again at 00:40 Slight plothole. Passengers in arriving train could see the robbers through the window and should have alerted railroad employees in particular the "bulls" railroads hired to deal with just this type of thing.
00:30 Tickettaker is pistol whipped
1:45 Train at least appears to be moving at full speed based on the scenery through the open sidecar.
2:33 Pyrotechnic effect (robber explodes the safe)
2:41 Train slowing down as robbers advance toward the engine
2:51 Boiler stoker comes out armed with his shovel to fight a losing battle with the crooks. Between 3:00 and 3:03 they switch out the actor playing the stoker with a pretty obvious prop dummy which is hurled off the train at 3:09
3:55 I have no way to verify this but another commenter indicated this was atypical in most train robberies at the time: The robbers would simply have the seated passengers surrender their valuables instead of going to the trouble of making them get out of the locomotive first. Presumably, Edwin Porter did this to have a reason to include the shooting of a fleeing passenger at 4:48 That actor is a more convincing corpse than the mail clerk (who I assume we are to believe died, if not by gunfire then by shrapnel from the safe explosion)
5:36 Loading the ill-gotten gain into the engine
6:10 The getaway!
7:03 Meanwhile, back at the ticket office the ticket taker attempts to send an S. O.S.
7:52 Square dance time
8:12 "Here's how a REAL man does it..."
8:48 Sounding the alarm
9:42 Final showdown
10:26 Breaking the "fourth wall"
Good one 👌
What is the "fourth wall"?
@@arianam3720 It's when actors acknowledge the presence of the camera by reacting to it directly. An example would be any time that "Jim" on the U.S. version of The Office reacted to one of Dwight's crazier pronouncements by turning to the camera and raising an eyebrow.
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Breaking the fourth wall is not an error/movie sin. It's an artistic device. Also: don't judge dancing people.
Damn I did not expect this to be this good. Genuinely thrilling to watch 118 years later.
It's an awesome movie for 1903! With a great plot and a piece of terrific music! Thank you for uploading it!
Martin Scorsese was inspired by the gun shot and the end for goodfellas and that's why Tommy shoots the gun
How beautifully they shown those outside activities (running train) by the windows and doors.
Just mesmerizing ❤️
According to articles I've read online in Post magazine, the accompaniment of piano or organ didn't become popular until the teens. And as these early silent movies were often shown in Vaudeville houses, they would have sound effects in order to add as much realism as possible. The Great Train Robbery is considered the first "blockbuster." The article states it should not be viewed so much for its innovation, but rather its promulgation of the media type.
WHO'S WATCHIGN THIS 117 YEARS LATER?
I am👍
The Great Train Robbery (1903), de Edwin S. Porter, é considerado como “o primeiro filme realmente cinematográfico pela fluidez e coerência da narrativa” (CANELAS). E foi esse diferencial contido em tal obra (o da narrativa sendo fortalecida através da justaposição de planos) um dos fatores responsáveis por levar o cinema a ocupar a posição que detém hoje, de “arte de contar uma estória através de imagens dispostas em uma sucessão de cenas precisamente organizadas."
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It’s been 120 years daddy, I really really miss you 🥺
Thanks for posting this. This cut has a few more seconds than my DVD has, where the train office clerk wakes up and tries to use the telegraph, mine just cuts from the forest shot of the bandits, to the clerk unconscious and the girl comes through the door. This print was also struck from a hand tinted prints, Great film overall, thanks again for posting.
Thanks, I've been meaning to combine this print with one that still has the colour tints although it's a little complex given how different the other versions are in terms of length and frame-rate.
“In every respect we consider it absolutely the superior of any moving picture ever made.”
Edison Company Catalog, 1904
Fact that John Marston was chilling at the time of it's release is crazy
a wild west movie made *during* the wild west, the world is indeed full of wonders
Ikr. Awesome
This is a cowboy film when the wild west was still going
that's probably the only reason this isn't considered the first western, it wasn't set in the time period on purpose, they just happened to make a movie during the last decade or so of the actual west!
Yep once the phone lines went up the west was never the same.
@A Fridge Too Far really no, the wild west ended oficially in 1910-1912 when a there was no clear frontier in the continental US, also, when the last territories in the west acquired statehood
@@renex_g3915 i would say the wild west actually ended by the time riding horses stopped being a thing and women stopped wearing those fancy royalty-like dresses, around 1918ish
There were also stunts done on festivals or something by criminals...outlaws that's the right word
6:10 is shot on the old Lackawanna Railroad in Totowa, NJ. It is now part of I-80. You can see the Passaic River below when the robbers are running down the hill.
This movie has been so famous but I didn't have chance to see. Thank you for uploading.
Really impressive for 1903
The special effects are phenomenal
When the outlaw shots at the screen at the end was what inspired Tommy shoting at the screen in the ending of goodfellas.
"Why, all you had to do was follow darn locomotive, CJ"
I find it cool that this wasn't a historical movie about the past when it came out. It was about events that happened during those times, and not some historical cowboy outlaw film.
David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 - July 23, 1948) was an American film director. Widely considered as the most important filmmaker of his generation, he pioneered financing of the feature-length movie.
His film The Birth of a Nation (1915) made investors a profit, but also attracted much controversy, as it depicted African Americans in a negative light and glorified the Ku Klux Klan. Together with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks he founded United Artists, enabling them to control their own interests, rather than depending on commercial studios.
Imagine the reaction of people back then for the fourth wall break at the end.
The magic of movies, indeed.
The first action film
It's been a long time and it still has that sweet simple yet classic kick to it
Samuel L. Jackson was also in this. Reportedly the a working was, "Snakes on a Train". Jackson's most famous line in this film is " ".
Actually his line was 'I'll be real good from now on Mr Cates!' but the scene was deleted.
The end shot is crazy lol
The moment when your realise that none of them is alive today.
True, even the child would be about 120 years old
They've all been dead for 50+ years.
What!!! You mean they're all dead???
Sad...
@@oldfilmsandstuff4679 interestingly the oldest living person as of now was born in this same year (1903)
Only 1900's kids will remember 🔥🔥
I Rembered when this was released. Life was simple and sweet. I voted for Roosevelt Theaters ran a special of popcorn and coke for a penny. The good ol days
Coca-Cola! I couldn’t get enough of that wonderful brain tonic. I wonder what was inside it?
The Great Train Robbery, I read about this while typing a paper for my Communications class and after watching the movie, it’s beyond interesting. Now, I rewatched it for my Film 1895 to 1945 class and it’s a good look into how film was first made, especially with it also using cuts and different angles.
The fact that I’m watching this on my phone would blow the minds of everyone involved in this
This film was the first film ever to tell a complete story from beginning to end. Previous films were nothing more than a sene from every day life shown before the camera. Hence the term living pictures. When it debuted it caused a sensation in America and around the world no one had ever seen anything quite like it. The director Edwin s porter said years later the first night it was shown in New York they had to push people out the door and tell them to go home. They wanted to watch it over and over again. He New by that he had a hit. It set the standard for all other films for the next several years.
"in the halls of the mountain king" love the music choice
The spot where they cross the river at 6:45 is within South Mountain Reservation in Millburn NJ. It is the West Branch of the Rahway River. Called "Thistle Mill Ford". I was there today!
In the last scene, those in the cinema were really scared.
From this to Clint Eastwood's masterpiece: Unforgiven. The Western genre will always be my absolute favorite 🐎
Robbers usually didn't take the time to empty out the passenger coaches. They robbed the passengers as they sat. Otherwise, good depiction of a generic train robbery.
Did you just critique a 118 year old film?
@@rulebritannia8438 lmfao -
Nice content!
Better quality than CCTV footage of robbery's
Better than today's marvel movies
This is a film that really makes you smile
Who's watching 121 years later
Some dude sat in the theater in 1903 and was like: YOOOOOOOOOO!
One more score, Arthur! ONE. MORE. SCORE!
Fue la primera peli con sonido! Increíble!
This has the very first stuntman ever. The guy who falls off the horse at 9:14.
This actually looks good
who’s watching this 121 years later
Me!!
10:26 this was the inspiratio for Tommy firing a gun at the camera at the end of Goodfellas. Not sure if anybody in the comment section said it yet. Probably. But pretty cool
Dame Mae Fishman is in this one!
I've watched and reviewed this incredibly old movie. Thanks for the upload. More people should see silent films!
A cinematic marvel of its time
Its been 121 years since this movie released, and i'm still watching🔥
Lmao 3:04 those special effects are so amazing and so life like that you can't even tell hes beating up on a straw dumby!
I smell O’driscolls...
darn lumbago
HAVE SOME FAITH ARTHUR
This was the first movie screened in Albania in 1908.
Great Train Robbery 2: Coming soon to theater near you! 🍿 🍿
I prefer the original movie at 80p 18 frames a second.
Do you know which year the original film was released and another train robbery happened in 1962. Right or wrong?
@@juniourst3ven596 The film was released 1903
4:49 Rip that one dude he will never be forgotten 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
My favourite silent film ever . salute sir edison
The only wild west train robbery that went smooth... ever.
I was invited to the premiere of this film when it came out. I got autographs from some of the actors and the director also. It was a grand party. We all got high and merry... This film was a major box office success back then and money was flowing like water. Good times!
Sorry to ask but how old are you
@@_ShwetaPandey
120 years young, duh
Have I unwittingly crossed dimensions into the _Myst_ series and are you part D'ni?
I remember when this came out. So much fun
En sintesis la pelicula trata de un robo organizado del siglo 19 demostrando el modo operandi de los malechores, igualmente aparce la inigualable sensibilidad del ser humano al ser apuntado con un arma, imaginar que esta pelicula es la iniciante en el genero de la pantalla verde, cuyo uso en la actualidad es usado en cada programa del mundo, en películas que te sorprenden con cada maravilla de sus aventuras. Es un honor poder ver este video, lamentable que no muchas personas no aprecien este arte.....
121 years later I watched this 😮
They don't make them like this anymore...
Would you know
Theodore Roosevelt was President when this was made, how awesome is that?! Bull Moose fanboys represent!
Always loved the color of Silent Films. Tints, tones, hand-painted frames in some cases (Trip to the Moon). It's something that we lost for a while in Sound films because that was too expensive to do when they already had to spend budgets on shooting sound. Meaning we lost color until the 30s, and lost widespread color film until the late 50s. Hurting more was that the color of Silent Films wasn't preserved for a while, leaving most Public Domain prints in B&W even though that wasn't intentional, and leading to a false perception that attempts to colorize Silent Films is somehow a modern trend "ruining classic films" (The colorized restoration of Trip to the Moon was controversial for having color... even though the film DID have color when it was first made and the restoration was actually a faithful recreation).
Even then, the surreal tints, tones, and paints used in Silent Films just look so pleasing to me even compared against true color. You wanna see a great usage of them, watch the 1995 restoration of Nosferatu. Not the 2006 restoration (Which over-did it with over-saturated colors that killed the atmosphere). It's gorgeous.
This is still good 119 years later.