The Great Train Robbery (1903)

This is the longest and most comlpete version of the film available. Filmed in November 1903 at Edison’s New York studio, at Essex County Park in New Jersey, and along the Lackawanna railroad and released in December 1903, “The Great Train Robbery“ is considered to be one of the first significant early US narrative films. Greatly influenced by the British film “Daring Daylight Robbery“ (1903) it introduced many new cinematic techniques (cross cutting, double exposure, camera movement and location shooting)