http://whitecitycinema.com/2012/07/30/adventures-in-early-movies-the-great-train-robbery-and-broncho-billy-anderson-pt-2/ A Film Studies Blog with a Chicago Perspective Wed, 19 Jun 2013 05:52:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://whitecitycinema.com/2012/07/30/adventures-in-early-movies-the-great-train-robbery-and-broncho-billy-anderson-pt-2/#comment-3834 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:12:31 +0000 http://whitecitycinema.com/?p=8364#comment-3834 it’s my first time visiting here. and i found so many entertaining stuff in this blog, especially its discussion.

]]> http://whitecitycinema.com/2012/07/30/adventures-in-early-movies-the-great-train-robbery-and-broncho-billy-anderson-pt-2/#comment-3771 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 04:29:18 +0000 http://whitecitycinema.com/?p=8364#comment-3771 Whereas the Lumiere brothers had scared audiences unintentionally with their train film, there was no doubt as to the frenzy Edwin S. Porter intended to incite with his more calculated assault on the audience. This shot would become one of the most iconic images of the early silent cinema, right alongside of the rocket ship hitting the Man in the Moon in the eye in A Trip to the Moon, and would serve as an inspiration for the opening of the James Bond movies as well as the ending of Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas.

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