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	Train robbery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Train robbery was a crime that occurred mainly in the middle-to-late 19th century.
		In a train robbery, the first goal was to steal any money being delivered as cargo.
		If the outlaw was unsatisfied with the goods, passengers of the train's carriages (generally unarmed) would be held at gunpoint and made to hand over any valuables they were carrying (usually jewelry or currency).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Train_robbery (240 words)

	The Great Train Robbery (1903 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 western film.
		The scenes with the gun pointing at the audience and the train rushing towards the audience had audiences at the time screaming in fear, then laughing in relief.
		The movie was directed and photographed by Edwin S. Porter, a former Thomas Edison cameraman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Great_Train_Robbery_(movie) (341 words)

	The Great Train Robbery (1903 movie) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The movie starred, Broncho Billy Anderson and Justus D. Barnes, although there were no credits.
		"The Great Train Robbery" was also the name of an unrelated movie made in 1979.
		The Great Train Robbery of 1963 was a real-life event unrelated to either film.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/The_Great_Train_Robbery_(movie) (247 words)

	The Great Train Robbery (1903)
		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.
		The desperadoes stealthily sneak on board the train (between the tender, the car attached to the steam locomotive that carries fuel and water, and the express mail car) just before it pulls away.
		The train passengers are forced to leave the coaches.
	www.filmsite.org /grea.html (1380 words)

	BBC - Crime Case Closed - Great Train Robbery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The robbery was originally planned for June, but to take advantage of the extra money that a bank holiday would bring, they changed the date to August.
		In the grey light of morning, the train pulled to a stop at the false signals and a group of 'railway workers' appeared on the tracks wearing uniform blue overalls.
		The old man wasn't used to mail trains, so they couldn't get it to move and when they needed him most, their back-up man was no use at all.
	www.bbc.co.uk /crime/caseclosed/greattrainrobbery.shtml (1775 words)

	The Anniston Star - 100 years ago, 'The Great Train Robbery' launched feature-film industry
		The Great Train Robbery premiered without fanfare between stage acts in a rundown Manhattan vaudeville house, the Luban’s Museum on 14th Street.
		Movies were struggling out of the penny arcade era at the time.
		Robbery delivered, becoming the first surefire movie attraction and remaining the most successful film for more than a decade until D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation was released in 1915.
	www.dailyhome.com /entertainment/2003/as-movies-1218-0-3l17n3321.htm (921 words)

	Dan's Film Journal: The Great Train Robbery
		This movie, basic in story, makes use of the fact that time is completely under the control of the director, cutting between different groups to show what they are all doing relative to eachother at the same "time."
		The story begins with some men robbing a train and eventually being chased down and shot (how American), and ends, interestingly, with a man shooting at the screen in a fairly tight close-up, which at the time was an innovation.
		This movie is a fascinating look at one step towards the development of the modern feature film.
	audendi.com /filmblog/2005/03/great-train-robbery.html (193 words)

	HPR1.com / Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Motion picture technology had been introduced to the public in 1894, but movies remained largely a novelty and curiosity for about a decade, showing a wide variety of scenes from around the world or demonstrating trick film effects that cameramen devised, and usually running a minute or so apiece.
		Filmed in fl and white, because full-color movie film was still in the expensive experimental stage at the time, it nevertheless used color in selected areas of certain scenes, painstakingly painted by hand, one frame at a time, on some copies.
		Amazingly, the original camera negative of "The Great Train Robbery" still survives at the Library of Congress, and one of the color-tinted prints also survived long enough to be copied onto modern color film.
	www.hpr1.com /archives/dec1103/movies.htm (1530 words)

	Edison Motion Picture and Sound Recordings
		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....
		Just before she pulls out they stealthily board the train between the express car and the tender.
		This thrilling scene was taken from the mail car showing the tender and interior of locomotive cab, while the train is running forty miles an hour....
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/edhtml/gtr.html (840 words)

	Post - Thomas Edison's The Great Train Robbery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But The Great Train Robbery, which ran for 12 minutes at 16 fps, was conceived as an uninterrupted narrative, a single attraction that exhibitors would not show in portions.
		A posse was raised, pursued the desperadoes and a climactic gunfight ensued.
		Until The Great Train Robbery, cutaways were considered intrusions, robbing the audience of the chance to see the continuation of a scene they had already started.
	www.postmagazine.com /post/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=59532 (841 words)

	The Great Train Robbery (1903) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		When this film was made, things like special effects were hardly thought of, but notice how well the transgression from person to doll on the "throw the dead guy off the train" goes, and how nicely they have "moved the train" without moving the camera when they leave the locomotive behind.
		This movie is probably the best preview to how modern westerns became, at least if you take the best twelve minutes of many westerns, the twelve where people get shot, beat up and alerted.
		The movie follows it's storyline perfectly, and is easy to grasp the continuance throughout the film, in all, quite a masterpiece that comes highly recommended.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0000439 (353 words)

	SoundtrackNet : The Great Train Robbery (expanded) Soundtrack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The movie is based on the great historical crime novel by writer/director Michael Crichton, who had just worked with Goldsmith on Coma together just a year before.
		The story follows the true-life exploits of a daring 1855 robbery of a gold transport train while the train was in transit.
		The theme emulates the rhythm of a racing locomotive (the strings and horns play in a repetitively circular pattern, representing the rotating wheels and turning pistons while the trumpets are the trains whistle) be it when the music is in full fanfare ("The Gold Arrives") or subtly suggested ("Double Wax Job").
	www.soundtrack.net /soundtracks/database?id=3899 (390 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Great Train Robbery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		This is a great read and a well-done social history of one of the most fascinating men of the age.
		This is the suspenseful, creative story of the robbery of great train, during an age when the railroad was still new enough to be seen as something of a mircale of human invention.
		For this reason the Great Train Robbery is for me my favorite Crichton work, even though it may lack the polish of Jurassic Park or Congo or one of his more recent books.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/034539092X?v=glance (1718 words)

	Wilson's Blogmanac: The Great Train Robbery
		Best known of the robbers, the fun-loving birthday boy Ronnie Biggs (pictured, born on this day in 1929), was a member of neither, but was chosen because he knew the train driver.
		For his minor role in the robbery, Biggs was given a 30-year sentence, considered by many to be out of proportion to his crime.
		The Great Train Robbery is also the name of one of the earliest narrative films (1903; more).
	wilsonsalmanac.blogspot.com /2005/08/great-train-robbery.html (341 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - The Great Train Robbery
		Not a remake of the landmark 1903 Edwin S. Porter film, The Great Train Robbery is a dramatization of the famous first hold-up of a moving train in 1855 England.
		When released in England, this film was titled The First Great Train Robbery, so as not to be confused with Britain's embarrassing 1963 railroad heist.
		Filmed in Ireland, The Great Train Robbery was dedicated to the memory of its director of photography, Geoffrey Unsworth, who died shortly after the production wrapped.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/14330/plot.jhtml (236 words)

	Film rolled out a century ago with 'Great Train Robbery'
		Yet the humble screening is now regarded as the point when films ''started to turn from novelty into what they very soon would be,'' said Jere Guldin, film preservationist at the UCLA Film and Television Archives.
		The creative force behind ''Robbery'' was a 34-year-old Pennsylvanian named Edwin S. Porter, chief of Edison's skylight studio in Manhattan, which used natural light for interior filming because electrical movie lighting was yet to be developed.
		The exact locations used to shoot ''The Great Train Robbery'' have been all but obliterated over the years, says Steven Gorelick, associate director of the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission.
	www.suntimes.com /output/movies/sho-sunday-train21.html (551 words)

	Great Train Robbery, The (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Great Train Robbery was simultaneously published in Canada by Random House...
		The mastermind behind the Great Train Robbery is to give a talk to commemorate the crime, which took place in 1963.
		The mastermind behind the Great Train Robbery will mark the 40th anniversary of the heist by returning...
	www.moviesbytitle.com /Great-Train-Robbery,-The.html (532 words)

	The Great Train Robbery Silent Movie
		The train comes to a stand still; conductor comes to the window, and the frightened operator delivers the order.
		Some of the bandits robbing the mail car, others are seen climbing over the tender, one of them holding up the engineer, the other covering the fireman who secures a coal shovel and climbs up on the tender where a desperate fight takes place.
		Scene V. Shows the train coming to a stop; the engineer leaving the locomotive, uncoupling it from the train, then pulling ahead about one hundred feet in the face of the robbers pistols.
	www.silentmovies.com /edison/gtrscenes/gtr.htm (1016 words)

	Concerns about the great train robbery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		be disoriented by the change of scenery, but The Great Train Robbery is an excellent novel...
		The great train robbery is a great book about well a u train robbery...
		As stated on the The First Movies page, Edwin S. Porter directed this most famous of the early westerns.
	lifestyle-gd.com /articles/112/the-great-train-robbery.html (492 words)

	The Great Train Robbery
		early 100 years old, The Great Train Robbery is arguably the first narrative film in history.
		Even though the film is based on an actual train robbery committed by four of Butch Cassady's "Hole In The Wall" Gang, it is possible that the viewers could have been witnessing the real thing.
		Most startling to many would have been the final scene, in which the leader of the outlaws points his gun directly at the audience and fires.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Silents/Articles/GreatTrain/GreatTrain.html (432 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Movie : The Great Train Robbery : Plot
		The Great Train Robbery is not a remake of the 1903 landmark film of the same name; if it had been, it wouldn't have run any longer than eight minutes.
		The criminal's modus operandi (a rather cold-blooded one, involving mass murder) was later reworked into two Republic westerns, the first starring Bill Elliot and the second featuring Rex Allen.
		Claire Carleton is on hand in Great Train Robbery to play a nightclub singer who requires rescuing by two-fisted Steele.
	www.vh1.com /movies/movie/85976/plot.jhtml (167 words)

	Three Movie Buffs Review The Great Train Robbery (1903) Starring: Broncho Billy Anderson, A.C. Abadie, George Barnes
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		In 1902 with the release of the French made A Trip to the Moon the art form known as The Movies was truly begun and the very next year America got in on the act with Train Robbery.
		The plot is simple and the film quality grainy with age, but this movie still has the power to entertain.
	www.threemoviebuffs.com /review.php?movieID=greattrainrobbery (445 words)

	The Great Train Robbery (1903) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		It contains many of the elements of the classic hold-up story: a daring robbery involving violence and death, a posse being hastily formed, and the final flight and showdown in the woods.
		The final shot of the movie obviously was added to the end of the movie in order to surprise and startle the audiences of the day--and was successful in doing so.
		(6) The train engineer is forced off the engine while (7) the passengers are lined up in order to relieve them of their valuables.
	www.wildwestweb.net /great.html (453 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: The Great Train Robbery (1979) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A lively, humorous caper film of the first order, The Great Train Robbery also boasts a vividly authentic recreation of mid-Victorian England, all the more remarkable since the production was filmed primarily in Ireland on a budget of $6 million--a miraculously modest sum (even in 1978) for such a lavish-looking film.
		I bought this movie because I couldn't find it to rent, and the plot and cast seemed like a guarantee of a great movie to me. I wasn't disappointed but I might have chosen to rent rather than buy if I had been able.
		After months of planning, making wax impressions of four keys, effecting a prison break for one of their henchmen necessary to their plan and the escape of Pierce after the fact of the robbery, the robbery was completed without a hitch.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0792839064?v=glance (1861 words)

	Hangout - New Jersey Movie History
		The most popular among New Jersey films was "The Great Train Robbery." (Watch the movie online.) Edison's cameraman Edwin S. Porter directed and filmed the landmark western.
		The plot was inspired by a true event that occurred on August 29, 1900, when four members of Butch Cassidy's "Hole in the Wall" gang halted a train on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks in Wyoming.
		With the popularity of narrative films soaring, movie stars were born.
	www.state.nj.us /hangout_nj/200206_movies_p3.html (345 words)

	Spirituality & Health: Movie Review: The Great Train Robbery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Donald Sutherland is Agar, a specialist in keys and safe breaking who believes his hands are like "hummingbirds." Wayne Sleep is "Clean Willy" Williams, a thief who can wiggle through small spaces and climb walls with equal ease.
		The film hums along as Pierce and his cohorts locate and copy the four keys to the safes aboard the train.
		Part of the fun in The Great Train Robbery is the glimpse it gives us into Victorian society with its ratting sports, public hangings, and high society rituals.
	www.spiritualityhealth.com /newsh/items/moviereview/item_7431.html (296 words)

	Great Train Robbery -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The enormous popularity of The Great Train Robbery (1903), which is credited with being the first film with a realistic narrative, led investors to open permanent theaters, and...
		Known as the “father of the techno-thriller,” Michael Crichton drew an enormous following with his novels, movie screenplays, and the TV series ER.
		The movie industry was in its youth when the first Westerns were made.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037888?source=RSSOTD (837 words)

	G News
		Great idea, but done too dispassionately -- we're not sure who to root for or what's going on for far too long and in the end we really don't care about anything.
		It's a good movie, and I'm sure at the time of its release it was a great one, but I find it difficult to judge with my modern perspective.
		The biggest flaw was the lack of scope: the story has a bit of the epic about it, as this historical event was similar to the sinking of the Titanic in that it shocked the newly industrialized world that modern technology wasn't impenetrable.
	www.designwrite.com /marc/alphabetical/g.html (9000 words)

	Western movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Image:great_train_robbery_still.jpgrightthumbnail250pxBroncho Billy Anderson, from ''The Great Train Robbery''/
		Western movies, usually filmed in desolate corners of California, Arizona, Utah, Colorado or Wyoming, made the landscape not just a vivid backdrop but a character in the movie.
		A great many B-movie Westerns were aired on TV as time fillers, while a number of long-running TV Westerns became classics in their own right.
	www.infothis.com /find/Western_movie (2392 words)

	The First Great Train Robbery (1979) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Goofs: Continuity: During the robbery sequence, the telegraph line beside the track appears and disappears.
		The very beginning of this movie was truly promising and so compelling it was just too hard to surpass.
		This was maybe the first movie dealing with the Victorian period that I saw and wasn't an utter drag.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0079240 (393 words)

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