A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the movies
Date:
1943
Publisher:
New York : Simon and Schuster
Volume:
A pictorial history of the movies
Leaf #:
00021
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 28, 2024
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THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY (1903) Landmark. This same Edwin Porter, in 1903, produced die epoch-making film, The Great Train Robbery. Though in action and plot, it was a ten-cent thriller, it did tell a story— generally considered the first motion picture to do so. One of its actors, G. M. Anderson, later became famous as "Broncho Billy." The Great Train Robbery was followed by a string of similar melodramas— The Great Rank Robbery, The Bold Bank Robbery, and so on— attempting to cash in on its tremendous success (even in those days motion-picture producers were seldom distinguished by striking originality ) . But they could not rob it of the distinction of establishing the motion picture as a storytelling medium. ABOVE LEFT The Great Train Robbery featured George Barnes (not by name, of course), and he brought the story to the apex of excitement by discharging his gun full in the faces of the spectators. ABOVE RIGHT In 1907 an obscure actor named David Wark Griffith drifted into the Edison studios in the Bronx, New York. Our old friend Porter, about to make a one-reel thriller called The Eagle's Nest, cast him as the hardy frontiersman who rescues a baby from the clutches of a mighty eagle. Here he is. You will hear more of him shor'y.