The Great Train Robbery

Duration: 11

Genre: Short Action Crime Western

Year Published: 1903

Creator: Blackhawk Films: Distributor | Edison Studios: Publisher | Indiana University Audio-Visual: Distributor | Mor-Com Communication

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: silent

Description: An early silent film about a gang of bandits who rob a mail train, flee a posse and die in a shoot-out. It is considered the first American film to create a storyline. The film is also a landmark for introducing innovative cinematic techniques including parallel editing, panning and matteing.

Complete Record: , An early silent film about a gang of bandits who rob a mail train, flee a posse and die in a shoot-out. It is considered the first American film to create a storyline. The film is also a landmark for introducing innovative cinematic techniques including parallel editing, panning and matteing. , , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.