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Home | Arts & Entertainment | Movies The other title from 1898 is very similar but somewhat better known. In Cripple Creek Bar-room people are drinking in a bar. When they get drunk the barmaid throws them out. As with Poker at Dawson City, it is the title which does most to establish the location. (Cripple Creek was the biggest gold strike in Colorado. Mining began in 1890 and peaked in 1901, and the Edison film is therefore contemporary with the scene it represents.) But the costumes also make a gesture towards a distinctively Western style. One or two of the hats show a cowboy influence and one character is dressed in top hat, white shirt and black coat, the traditional garb of the gambler. There is no denying that The Great Train Robbery is a major advance on such productions. It has genuine outdoor locations (though not authentically Western ones - it was shot on the Delaware and Lackawanna Railroad in New Jersey). Its narrative is far more developed. It incorporates into its ten minutes running time many of the motifs which were to become familiar to cinema audiences the world over: train robbery itself (raised to an art by the James gang in the 1870s and soon to become a perennial in Western films), some fisticuffs, a chase on horseback, a scene of a dude being forced to dance at gunpoint, and the final shootout. All that is lacking is for the cyphers who carry out the action to be developed into characters. Article Source: http://www.articlewheel.com
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