Cowboy Shoots At Audience

About this film

This is the last scene in Edwin S. Porter's "The Great Train Robbery," when the leader of the outlaws, played by Justus D. Barnes, empties his pistol at the audience. It cause quote a fright in theaters because no one had seen anything like it before. The Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division Rights information here: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westres.html http://www.loc.gov/homepage/legal.html

Directors & creators

Thomas Edison

Subjects

stock footage; historic; 1903; classic films; The Great Train Robbey; Barnes, Justus D. (1862-1946); outlaw; western movie

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