The Great Train Robbery Trivia
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Posted by James Hughes Jun 24, 2006 |
This week you can read about Edwin S.Porter's classic film but did you know the following intriguing trivia?
- Although classed as a Western, it was filmed in New Jersey.
- Instructions were distributed with the film stating that the famous gunshot could be placed at either the start of the film or the end. The majority chose the end. With cinema's demand for quick action, it may very well have been put at the start if filmed today.
- Edwin S.Porter was a former Thomas Edison cameraman.
- It was the first time guns were used to force someone to dance on film. Imitated for years afterwards in countless other movies
- In the real robbery Butch Cassiday's gang stole $5000.
- It was based on Scott Marble's story of 1896.
- The original negative has been preserved by the Library Of Congress. So prints can still be run from it even to this day.