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    THE FIRST COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL FILM: THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY 1903At 12 minutes long this American film was very short by today’s standards but it was innovative in many ways. It had split scenes in which footage from different threads in the plot are edited so it switches from scene to scene and back again. There were 14 scenes in total. It was the story of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid robbing a train and blowing up the carriage with the safe in it. It was the first commercially successful film and created interest among investors by proving that movies could make money if entertaining enough. The still is a scene from the end of the movie in which a cowboy fires a gun directly at the camera. In 1903 this was considered so realistic that ladies would scream or faint when seeing this scene. It helped make the film play to packed halls across the USA. 

    THE FIRST COMMERCIALLY SUCCESSFUL FILM: THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY 1903

    At 12 minutes long this American film was very short by today’s standards but it was innovative in many ways. It had split scenes in which footage from different threads in the plot are edited so it switches from scene to scene and back again. There were 14 scenes in total. It was the story of Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid robbing a train and blowing up the carriage with the safe in it. 

    It was the first commercially successful film and created interest among investors by proving that movies could make money if entertaining enough. The still is a scene from the end of the movie in which a cowboy fires a gun directly at the camera. In 1903 this was considered so realistic that ladies would scream or faint when seeing this scene. It helped make the film play to packed halls across the USA.