Brigands and robbers United States Drama.
Museum of Modern Art Collection (Library of Congress)
mouvement Muybridge, Eadweard photographie enregistrement vidéo.
Películas cinematográficas mudas Videodiscos.
Great train robbery: Bandits tie up the station master, stop the train, rob the mail car, take the passengers' valuables, and then escape; and the station master's daughter frees her father, alerts a group at a dance who then chase and overtake the robbers.
A reconstructed tinted version of this early narrative western. Several roles, including the man who makes a break for it are played by Broncho Billy Anderson who became the first western star.
Great train robbery (Motion picture)
Heart of Texas Ryan: An action-packed tale with a kidnapping, fist-fights and a last-minute rescue.
DVDs
The Great train robbery and other primary works
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Shorts
Cinema begins
Adventure films
The Great train robbery & other primary works
The great train robbery, and other primary works. --
A compilation of movies from the silent film era. Musical soundtrack added, no narration.
This special edition contains two versions of this historically significant western the original silent archival version and a digitally enhanced version with new music, effects track and color sequences.
Western
UCLA preservation
In bed with the police
A train robbery, the pursuit and capture of the outlaws by the law.
The Great train (Pel·lícula cinematogràfica)
Western films
Great train robbery (Black and white version)
Filmed during November 1903 at Edison's New York studio, in Essex County Park, New Jersey, and along the Lackawanna Railroad. Description of the first scene: Interior of Railroad Telegraph Office. Two masked robbers enter and compel the operator to set the "signal block" to stop the approaching train, also making him write a fictitious order to the engineer to take water at this station, instead of at "Red Lodge," their regular watering stop. The train comes to a standstill; conductor comes to the window, and the frightened operator delivers the order while the bandits crouch out of sight, at the same time keeping their revolvers trained on him. No sooner does the conductor leave than they fall upon the operator, bind and gag him, then hastily depart to catch the moving train. From the Edison films catalog: "This sensational and highly tragic subject will certainly make a decided hit whenever shown. In every respect we consider it absolutely the superior of any moving picture ever made. It has been posed and acted in faithful duplication of the genuine Hold Ups made famous by various outlaw bands in the far West, and only recently the East has been shocked by several crimes of the frontier order, which fact will increase the popular interest in this great Headline Attraction."
Forty early films by pioneer filmakers including the first blockbuster American film The great train robbery and other works by Edwin S. Porter, Thomas A. Edison, Louis Lumière, Georges Méliès, Eadweard J. Muybridge, Ferdinand Zecca etc.
Treasury of early cinema 1894-1914
Kinetoscopes
Homage to Eadweard Muybridge
"This, the first blockbuster in American film history, was part of a popular cycle of crime pictures (several of which, including Daring daylight burglary, and Desperate poaching affray, can be seen on volume two). Only some years later would this film be seen as a western. Directed by Edwin S. Porter, with the assistance of G.M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson, who also appeared in a number of small roles"--Videocassette notes by Charles Musser.
Actualities
Program on the genesis of the motion picture medium, including Edwin S. Porter's The great train robbery and other formative works.
"This, the first blockbuster in American film history, was part of a popular cycle of crime pictures (several of which, including Daring daylight burglary, and Desperate poaching affray, can be seen on volume two). Only some years later would this film be seen as a western. Directed by Edwin S. Porter, with the assistance of G.M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson, who also appeared in a number of small roles. This print is not only in excellent condition, but it is the only surviving copy to boast selective hand coloring"--Videocassette notes by Charles Musser.
Thieves overpower a stationmaster and rob a train. The stationmaster's daughter frees him and alerts the citizens, who form a posse. As the bandits are dividing the spoils, they are captured. This film was the first Western, as well as the first important American movie.
Video recordings
Drama
Silent films
Presents the first important American film; brief, historic French films consisting of a single shot, some shown at the first movie exhibition; and Billy Whiskers films starring a goat and using trick photography.
Bandits tie up the station master, stop the train, rob the mail car, take the passengers' valuables and then escape. The station master's daughter then frees her father, alerts a group at a dance who then chase and overtake the robbers.
Great train robbery, the cinema begins
Trip to the moon
From Edison films catalog: This sensational and highly tragic subject will certainly make a decided "hit" whenever shown. In every respect we consider it absolutely the superior of any moving picture ever made. It has been posed and acted in faithful duplication of the genuine "Hold Ups" made famous by various outlaw bands in the far West, and only recently the East has been shocked by several crimes of the frontier order, which fact will increase the popular interest in this great Headline Attraction. Scene 1 -- Interior of Railroad Telegraph Office. Two masked robbers enter and compel the operator to set the "signal block" to stop the approaching train, also making him write a fictitious order to the engineer to take water at this station, instead of at "Red Lodge," their regular watering stop. The train comes to a standstill; conductor comes to the window, and the frightened operator delivers the order while the bandits crouch out of sight, at the same time keeping their revolvers trained on him. No sooner does the conductor leave than they fall upon the operator, bind and gag him, then hastily depart to catch the moving train. Scene 2 -- At the Railroad Water Tank. The bandit band are seen hiding behind the tank as a train stops to take water (according to false order). Just before she pulls out they stealthily board the train between the express car and the tender. Scene 3 -- Interior of Express Car. Messenger is busily engaged with his duties. Becoming alarmed at an unusual sound, he goes to the door, and peeping through the keyhole, discovers two men trying to break in. He starts back in a bewildered manner. Quickly recovering, his first thought is of the valuables in the strong box, which he hastily locks, and throws the key through the open side door. Pulling his revolver, he fortifies himself behind a pile of trunks, etc. In the meantime, the two robbers have succeeded in effecting an entrance. They enter cautiously. The messenger opens fire on them. A desperate pistol duel takes place, in which the messenger is killed. One of the robbers stands watch while the other tries to open the treasure box. Finding it locked, he searches the messenger for the key. Not finding it, he blows the safe up with dynamite. After securing the valuables and mail bags, they leave the car. [end of part 1].
First program in a series recreating the genesis of the motion picture medium and the foundation from which the styles and plots of contemporary cinema later evolved. Includes The great train robbery and other significant early films by pioneer filmakers.
Great train robbery: Bandits tie up the station master, stop the train, rob the mail car, take the passengers' valuables, and then escape; and the station master's daughter frees her father, alerts a group at a dance who then chase and overtake the robbers. DVD contains two editions: the original silent archival version provided by the Library of Congress and a digitally enhanced version with new music and effects track and color tinted sequences.
The great train robbery
Paper prints
1895-6 first programs
Fiction films
In the life of a fireman
History
Treasury of early cinema, 1894-1914
The great train robbery (Motion picture : 1903)
Tumbleweeds: Spectacular recreation of the Cherokee Strip land rush.
Bandits tie up the station master, stop the train, rob the mail car, take the passengers' valuables, and then escape. The station master's daughter frees her father, alerts a group at a dance who then chase and overtake the robbers.
The genesis of the motion picture medium is vividly recreated in this unprecedented collection of the cinema's formative works. More than crucial historical artifacts, these films reveal the foundation from which the styles and stories of the contemporary cinema would later arise. An animated rendering of Eadweard Muybridge's primitive motion studies (1877-85) begins the program, immediately defining the compound appeal of cinema as both a scientific marvel and sensational popular entertainment. This is followed by the works of Louis and Auguste Lumière, who offer cinematic glimpses of such commonplace sights as children quarreling, a lion in a zoo or the feeding of poultry. As for more obvious fictions there is the myth-making of Edwin S. Porter's seminal The great train robbery (1903) and the pictorial splendor of Ferdinand Zecca's The Golden Beetle (1907), both presented in mint condition prints with the original hand-tinting, as well as Georges Méliès' extravagant A trip to the moon (1902, complete with narration penned by the director, intended to accompany its performance). The low art origins of the cinema are represented in some of Thomas Edison's Kinetoscopes (1894-97, serpentine dances, a cockfight, a bedroom full of seminary girls engaged in a pillow fight and the notorious first screen kiss) and a collection of mechanized peep shows from American Mutoscope and Biograph, whose burlesque origins are free from social or aesthetic pretense, being designed solely for titillation and amusement. When social crusaders spoke of the evils of film, this is what they had in mind.
The Great train robbery and other primary works by Porter, Edison, Lumiere, etc.
Bandits tie up the station master, stop the train, rob the mail car, take the passengers' valuables, and then escape, and the station master's daughter frees her father, alerts a group at a dance who then chase and overtake the robbers.
Great train robbery and other primary works
The Great train robbery
The genesis of the motion picture medium is recreated in this collection of films from cinema's formative period. More than crucial historical artifacts, these films reveal the foundation from which the styles and stories of the contemporary cinema would later arise.
Movies begin, a treasury of early cinema, 1894-1914
The battle of Elderbush Gulch: Two women from the East move out west and encounter hostile Indians.
Soda water clerk
The hold-up and robbery of a train and the pursuit and defeat of the bandits. This film is one of the very first to sustain a narrative and was very successful. It contains a scene in which a bandit fires a pistol at the audience, a very startling effect for this era.
The genesis of the motion picture medium is recreated in this 5-part collection of the cinema's formative works which reveal the foundation from which the styles and plots of contemporary cinema later evolved. This first program includes the first blockbuster in American film, The Great Train Robbery and other significant early films by pioneer filmakers.
The great train robbery the cinema begins
Great train robbery (Motion picture : 1903)
Bandits tie up a telegraph operator and rob a train, celebrate their success, but are arrested by the posse.
In the taxi business
The great train robbery & other primary works : [The movies begin: Vol 1]
Feature films
A collection of early motion picture films, including works by Eadweard Muybridge, Louis and Auguste Lumière, Georges Méliès' "Le voyage dans la lune", Edwin S. Porter's "The great train robbery" and Segundo de Chomon's "The golden beetle."
A clerk at a train station is attacked leaving the train to be looted by four armed men.
Golden beetle
This classic is the first motion picture to contain a plot: bandits tie up the station master, stop the train, rob the mail and the passengers, and escape. The station master's daughter discovers her father, frees him, and alerts the town. A chase is organized and a shootout ensues.
Motion studies
Westerns
The Great train robbery is the first motion picture to contain a plot: bandits tie up the station master, stop the train, rob the mail and the passengers and escape. The station master's daughter frees her father and alerts the town. First Programs is a compilation of single-shot films which were shown in Paris in 1895 and 1896 at the first public exhibition of projected motion pictures. Billy Whiskers is 4 comic films each featuring a goat who, with the aid of trick photography, finds himself involved in a variety of human situations.
Biograph mutoscope
Contiene dos ediciones: la versión original silenciosa de archivo proporcionada por la Biblioteca del Congreso y un digital con la versión perfeccionada con música y efectos.
Short films
The genesis of the motion picture medium is recreated in this 5-part collection of the cinema's formative works which reveal the foundation from which the styles and plots of contemporary cinema later evolved. This first program includes the first blockbuster in American film, The Great Train Robbery and other significant early films by pioneer filmmakers.
Locomotive engineers United States Drama.
mouvement Muybridge, Eadweard photographie DVD vidéo.
cinéma 1894 1907 anthologie enregistrement vidéo.
Paper Print Collection (Library of Congress)
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) United States Drama.