The Great Train Robbery.

A: Access PP: Positive Picture AC: Acetate A: 400' 16/8/9.5mm 16mm Black & White 300 Edwin S. Porter Director: Edwin S. Porter Thomas A. Edison, Inc.

The film opens with two bandits breaking into a railroad telegraph office, where they force the operator at gunpoint to have a train stopped and to transmit orders for the engineer to fill the locomotive's tender at the station's water tank. The bandits then force the passengers off the train and rifle them for their belongings. Carrying their loot, the bandits escape in the. locomotive, later stopping in a valley where their horses had been left.

Credits

Directed by
Siegmund Lubin
Produced by
Siegmund Lubin

Copyright

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Sources

  1. 16mm Filmography (legacy record) — title, year, creator, length, format, genre, description
  2. Wikidata · Q4092494 ↗ — color, country, credits, copyright