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 Shooting the audience half a century before James Bond. An early film Western, made in 1903 by Edwin S. Porter for Thomas Edison's production company. It depicts a group of criminals robbing a train and its passengers, escaping in the uncoupled locomotive, and being pursued and killed by a posse recruited from a local dance hall. Apart from the title card and the famous shot of an outlaw firing at the audience* , the film consists of thirteen shots, taking place in three interior and a variety of exterior locations. There are no intertitles.It was one of the longest narrative films yet produced* , and contains early uses of what would come to be standard cinematic techniques: composite editing (via multiple exposure), location shooting, intercutting between simultaneously-occurring scenes, cutting within the same scene to compress time, and camera movement.This film is in the public domain, and may be viewed at Google Video and elsewhere.Not to be confused with the 1975 Michael Crichton novel or other Similarly Named Works.This film provides examples of:
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