The Great Train Robbery

The Great Train Robbery

  • Director: Edwin S. Porter
  • Writer: Scott Marble,Edwin S. Porter
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: None, English
  • Release date: December 7, 1903
  • Sound mix: Silent
  • Aspect ratio: 1.33 : 1
  • Also known as: Велике пограбування потягу
  • "The Great Train Robbery" is a western film directed by Edwin S. Porter and starring John Manus Dougherty Sr. and AC Abadie. The film was released in 1903.
    The film is based on a real robbery that occurred in the United States in 1900. It tells the story of a robber who robbed passengers on a train and was chased by the police and was punished.

    Details

    • Release date December 7, 1903
    • Filming locations Dover, New Jersey, USA
    • Production companies Edison Manufacturing Company

    Box office

    Budget

    $150 (estimated)

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    • By Chelsey 2022-12-08 08:37:35

      Bout, a master

      Edwin S. Porter, a landmark figure in film history after the Lumiére brothers and Georges Méliès.

      This is the master of all the elements since the birth of the film, and at the same time it was named as the first western film, which influenced a large number of latecomers.

      Bout innovatively used Pans&Tilts (the camera moves left and right & up and down) in this film, so that new venues and props can enter the original stage. In the classic lens, when the lens is shifted to...

    • By Leanne 2022-12-07 06:41:40

      The originator of the movie "brain supplement"

      The value of this film in film history has three main points:

      1. The method of time-space conversion: In the

      previous silent film, the switching of different scenes was realized by fading in and out, circled in and circled out. But the film uses direct switching, which gives the audience the feeling of being simpler.

      2. The originator of the genre film. The originator of the

      police and gangster film, created an important genre film in the late Hollywood...

    • By Clay 2022-11-30 15:25:58

      The originator of the genre

      When Edison played with the diorama alone, the Lumière brothers showed reality images in the big cafe, and Mélière was obsessed with theatrical magic, Bout created a nearly perfect Western genre in 1903.
          Film techniques are used very skillfully in movies. The play enters the story quickly at the beginning, creating tension, and at the end, the sheriff is very provocative at the camera with three bangs and bangs. These have very dramatic tensions. The formation of montage consciousness...

    • By Charlotte 2022-11-27 19:08:03

      Train robbery

      The film is divided into 13 segments, each of which is a part of a complete event shot by a lens, several of which effectively express the narrative features of the film. The film further breaks the principle of chronological narrative, and creates a narrative time and space that is more in line with the laws of film art through the editing method of interlaced time and space. The film attracted many audiences and achieved great commercial success. It occupied the American screen for 10...

    • By Tatyana 2022-11-20 13:50:17

      Originator of Westerns and Westerns

      Is the originator of westerns and genres. Laid out the elements of Westerns: guns, wide-brimmed hats, running horses, hunting, wild, robbers, robberies.

      Edwin Bout, United States, 1903. I filmed "The Life of an American Firefighter" before.

      American films developed slowly in the previous ten years, and most of them copied the ideas of European films and competed for the patent right of the machine. It has been in theaters for ten years, and American audiences like it very much,...

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    • By Julia 2023-09-30 19:33:10

      At the end of the gods, the history of the film is...

    • By Alden 2023-09-29 20:20:38

      A milestone in the history of American film, the montage technique used in the splicing between scenes makes the style of the whole film appear unified and compact, and establishes the structural sculpting of a general feature film. It is the pioneering work of the Western film...

    • By Daniela 2023-09-27 22:58:41

      The structure is very complete, and the last shot is really...

    • By Daphney 2023-09-24 09:59:23

      I don't know why people watch these films spontaneously, except for those who study film history. Five stars are given because I am also studying film history. This film has created too many historical milestones. The first film to use off-camera editing (surprised that Merrill did not expect this), the first film to discover parallel editing (although it is not the first one, before Bout I took parallel shots, but he did it...

    • By Antonetta 2023-09-18 06:41:00

      I also read a lot of friends' comments just now, and I feel the same way. The technique is parallel montage. A small panorama of a scene tells the development of a space. The time-space extension effect of the movie. In the small panorama if it is static, it will be very boring. The director will process the dynamic picture in each shot. The next few shots have a simple shake. The ending is very...

    Movie plot

    Two robbers broke into a telegraph room at a railway station, forced the telegrapher to signal the train, and then tied the telegrapher together. After the train approached, the robbers sneaked onto the train. Subsequently, the robbers forced the train to stop, drove all the passengers off the train, and ransacked their money. After succeeding, the four robbers fled to the grassland to divide the spoils. At the same time, a little girl...
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    "The Great Train Robbery" creatively develops the omission of film narrative and the unique continuity of time and space structure. It has begun to take the embryonic form of Western films and has an important position in the history of film. The lens in the picture is the organization and lens of the internal information of the picture. The performance of the switching skills of interlaced time and space between shots creatively...
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