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Porter. The great train robbery.

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  1. Porter The great train robbery

  2. The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American silent short Western film written, produced, and directed by Edwin S. Porter a former Edison Studios cameraman. Actors in the movie included Alfred C. Abadie, Broncho Billy Anderson and Justus D. Barnes, although there were no credits. Though a Western, it was filmed in Milltown, New Jersey. • At ten minutes long, The Great Train Robbery film is considered a milestone in film making, expanding on Porter's previous work Life of an American Fireman.The film used a number of unconventional techniquesincluding composite editing, on-location shooting, and frequent camera movement. The film is one of the earliest to use the technique of cross cutting, in which two scenes are shown to be occurring simultaneously but in different locations. Some prints were also hand collared in certain scenes. Techniques used in The Great Train Robbery were inspired by those used in Frank Mottershaw's British film A Daring Daylight Burglary, released earlier in the year. Film historians now largely consider The Great Train Robbery to be the first American action film and the first Western film with a "recognizable form". The great train robbery

  3. At the start at the movie there is a title screen of the movie announcing the name of the film. In the film there is a use of guns and when they shoot they let of smoke and you can see it while the movie is playing played. The film also employed the first pan shots in scenes eight and nine, and the use of an ellipsis in scene eleven. Rather than follow the telegraph operator to the dance, the film cut directly to the dance where the telegraph operator enters. It was also the first film in which gunshots forced someone to dance in scene eleven - an oft-repeated, clichéd action in many westerns. And the spectacle of the fireman replaced by a dummy with a jump cut in scene four being thrown off the moving train was a first in screen history. Special effects

  4. The film used a number of innovative techniques, many of them for the first time, including parallel editing, minor camera movement, location shooting and less stage-bound camera placement. Jump-cuts or cross-cuts were a new, sophisticated editing technique, showing two separate lines of action or events happening continuously at identical times but in different places. The film is intercut from the bandits beating up the telegraph operator in scene one. Then the operator's daughter discovering her father in scene 10. Then a cut to the operator's recruitment of a dance hall posse in scene eleven, then to the bandits being pursued in scene twelve, and splitting up the booty and having a final shoot-out in scene thirteen. Editing techniques

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