The Great Train Robbery (1903)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
DVDRip | AVI | 720 x 576 | DIVX @ 8404 Kbps | Score MP3 @ 128 Kbps | 10 min | 622 Mb
Genre: Western, Classics
DVDRip | AVI | 720 x 576 | DIVX @ 8404 Kbps | Score MP3 @ 128 Kbps | 10 min | 622 Mb
Genre: Western, Classics
Among the earliest existing films in American cinema - notable as the first film that presented a narrative story to tell - it depicts a group of cowboy outlaws who hold up a train and rob the passengers. They are then pursued by a Sheriff's posse. Several scenes have color included - all hand tinted.
It's hard to assign "The Great Train Robbery" a rating, as it shouldn't really be watched as a film the way we watch films now. But from a historical perspective, it's fascinating, and is an excellent example of the use of film editing, an art form then in its infancy and now an award category recognized every year at the Oscars.
Before this movie, it wasn't customary to tell multiple story lines simultaneously, but here, various activities going on in different locations are intercut to create suspense. D.W. Griffith would use this technique much more ambitiously (and combine it with many other developing film techniques) in "The Birth of a Nation" over ten years later, but credit must be given to "Train Robbery" for blazing a trail.
Also, this is the movie famous for the shot of an outlaw shooting a gun directly at the camera. I can't imagine what effect this had on audiences at the time, who were probably diving behind their chairs for cover.IMDB Reviewer
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The Great Train Robbery (1903)
The Great Train Robbery (1903)
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