"The Great Train Robbery" (1903) - 1080p HD

[@oldfilmsandstuff4679]

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[@mariofanalex4455]

You just earned a sub

[@AhnealHolley-y6u]

Why were there no talking

[@lindaloe]

Because There Were No Talkies In 1903!!

[@hanzfranz7739]

Thanks for the nice quality! I was really suprised when i got started with pre 1930 movies that they are quiet modern in terms of violence, nudity and cinematagrophy.

[@keyser9020]

The fact that we get the privilege to watch this 117 years later is astonishing

[@sameeknowsitall]

ikr

[@roecatgaming]

118 now, 4 more years until we pass the oldest person confirmed

[@musicaltheatergeek79]

Especially since so many silent films of the 1910s and 1920s have been lost to history.

[@loriflynn78]

Oh to be able to travel back in time......

[@dplatt7290]

sad thing is there are so many movies from that time which are lost forever

[@Vdmirvl]

Fun fact, the classical piece played at 0:35, titled “In the Hall of the Mountain King,” was only around 25 years old at release of this film.

[@tellahsage6477]

Holy shit... this really helps put in perspective just how long of a time ago this was made

[@luiginastro8831]

God, it's so weird to think about.

[@emilal]

Certified hood classic

[@ancalites]

lol for them it was like listening to the Spice Girls or something

[@leesweets4110]

I hear no one wanted to watch this moving picture show on account of the pop music.

[@jordanlawsonmetallicafan4585]

WHO'S WATCHING THIS 116 YEARS LATER?

[@wiro500]

Me

[@wastool]

You did, apparently.

[@nono8867]

Fucking me man

[@andersbengtson9644]

I am. This is film history - without the pioneers there would be no movies.

[@Sean-yd5lr]

@Arian Cruz Ponce lol i remember getting that when I was a teenager before our house had internet. Was a useful resource before having imdb, internet lists, aggregate review scores etc. to guide me, definitely read it cover to cover a few times.

[@michasz4297]

Only the 1900s kids will remember.

[@MTHRebirth]

In 1982 we had a little better quality though

[@randypicard1674]

Raid VerVe r/wooosh

[@alvexok5523]

@@MTHRebirth boulderdash. I remember some fine and dandy picture quality when watching this in the theater in 1903, you young whippersnapper.

[@MTHRebirth]

@@alvexok5523 lol😂

[@glorylord8940]

I think this is 1930s

[@harkstreak6952]

100 years ago this made with a limited amount of film and was physically edited in a room. 100 years later it is immortalized on the internet where it is at its most accessible. Fascinating...

[@jakelownds8878]

Apparently the last shot was considered really scary and may have inspired the James Bond gunbarrell And was also probably the first ever fourth-wall break in film

[@rayman17578]

It had to of I just watched all 24 its similar

[@bukowski20]

That last shot caused panic in audiences at the time. There wasn't a dry seat in the house.

[@rhysperegrine5100]

Definitely inspired the last shot in Goodfellas - of Joe Pesci shooting at the audience

[@johnbockelie3899]

With 100,000's of extras !!!!!!.

[@johnbockelie3899]

Untied by red riding Hood.

[@ViktorVonfuling]

What blows my mind is that this is a "western movie" that came out while the wild west was still a thing

[@christophervarszegi2599]

Baul from Yellow Submarine-Gun?

[@ViktorVonfuling]

Yes, it's Paul from Yellow Submarine

[@thethrillofpattaya8404]

***that means it's just a movie***

[@benitojuarez5190]

@@thethrillofpattaya8404 not really, if a war film is made during the war, is it a war movie still or “just a movie”?

[@MagnumLoadedTractor]

I think some used former out laws as stunt men/actors is Interesting

[@kijiji93]

I bet audiences back in the day lost their shit during the final scene

[@philcassidy3823]

@@hakdok649 your link looks funny to me, it says youtu instead of youtube

[@youknowit8713]

@@philcassidy3823click it no balls

[@finnley5590]

@@philcassidy3823r u dumb

[@lucasgribbon9686]

This was probably like an Avengers post credit scene for them lmao

[@ako4pex]

who has been waiting 116 years for the great train robbery (part II)? I think you're definitely in heaven right now may God bless your soul Rip

[@BurakCanKaplan]

Hahahaha

[@7superdaimajin]

The second Great Train Robbery was in 1978. smile.amazon.com/Great-Train-Robbery-Sean-Connery/dp/B00LC4PDIC/ref=tmm_dvd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1606005659&sr=8-2

[@Brian-xu9di]

I hope it stars Clint Eastwood !!

[@aaronstark5060]

You jest, but the way it’s been lately, I would not at all be surprised to read tomorrow that a reboot/sequel to this was being talked about. Nothing can just be left alone anymore.

[@gunterangel]

@@aaronstark5060 😄👍

[@trudibrown9661]

Just think that this mini movie was made before the event of the titanic and the 1st and 2nd world war. How cool is that?

[@oldfilmsandstuff4679]

Yeah, it's actually contemporary with the old west! Train robberies like this were very much still a thing in 1904.

[@rocky_adventure_bay7562]

Ollies Channel your ancestors

[@MegaQuahog]

Before the great depression, the roaring 20s, the noir era, hell the wild west/new frontier was still going on during this time.

[@mindlesscat2704]

ikr

[@varthikes53]

And the United States only had 45 states instead of 50.

[@arthurmorgan1533]

THERE’S ALWAYS A GODDAMN TRAIN

[@hisnameisjohn4602]

HAVE SOME FAITH ARTHUR!

[@woodypearce2411]

I HAVE A GODDAMN PLAN

[@MLP88]

Johnny Cash would agree.

[@carealoo744]

200th like

[@KGF-zf2qj]

Good performance Arthur

[@olivercooke7713]

the fact it's almost 120 years since this and we can still watch is amazing

[@MekDog69]

2:06 give this man an oscar

[@stephenholloway6893]

They didn't have Oscars in 1903. 1929 was when the the first Oscar ceremony took place.

[@unliving_ball_of_gas]

@@stephenholloway6893 unfortunate, that was the *best act I've ever seen!*

[@Milestonemonger]

"Give this man an Oscar" 😂🤣😅🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣😅

[@eliassettbassett643]

@@stephenholloway6893 we know

[@deletdis6173]

@@stephenholloway6893 Nothing gets past you, huh?

[@cha5]

10:26 That "breaking the fourth wall" scene last scene with the man aiming and firing his pistol has been homaged in everything ranging from The final closing shot of Joe Peschi in Martin Scorsese's movie Goodfellas to Alan Moore's comic book series about the history of movies and film Cinema Purgatorio.

[@emilal]

peschi

[@Lucius1958]

@@emilal Pesci

[@insertclevername4123]

@@Lucius1958 Peshy

[@tommasoguarducci4619]

Peschi

[@madhash83]

Pepsi

[@Streetw1s3r]

Crazy to think this was actually made in the western era. So it's a movie based in current times when it was filmed.

[@calebhu6383]

That's like a lot of movies though?

[@Streetw1s3r]

@@calebhu6383 I mean Western movies today are based in the past obviously and they feel distant, but in this movie it's the present because it was actually made in that era, they're not trying to capture a long gone era because IT IS that era. Outlaws and gunslingers were a real thing when this was made.

[@calebhu6383]

@@Streetw1s3r No, I mean there are plenty of movies based on current events and recent happenings. That's what a lot of movies are.

[@PaTRpU99]

@@calebhu6383 but we consider the old west to be so long ago and this movie was made at the time it still existed, that’s the point

[@calebhu6383]

@@PaTRpU99 Doesn't seem that crazy to me. Movies have always been drawn off of events of their time, there were tons of WW2 movies made during WW2, there were movies about the Cold War during the Cold War.

[@luiginastro8831]

Fun fact: there's only one person still alive today from the year this short was made. Kane Tanaka, still kicking at 118. Edit: Welp, RIP Kane.

[@JMartinez351]

I was just going to say the same thing brother

[@JMartinez351]

Still alive 😊

[@the8621-y4m]

She’s 119 now

[@juaricolas]

its still alive my dude tanaka?

[@marina2387]

She died

[@hefeibao]

Fascinating that over a century later, anyone can watch this film and fully understand the plot and story line without any loss of context.

[@huh968]

i don't see how that's fascinating. crime still exists, trains still exist... and that's about it for context. and the linear narrative is still the most common way to tell a story

[@KingTaterBugg]

​@@huh968 I think that what he means is how this film didn't have the cards with text and told its story though the use of acting and not by words or text

[@xvumns]

WHOS WATCHING THIS BANGER 120 YEARS LATER!?

[@KneeJerkish]

The bandit without a mustache at 3:35, the passenger that runs and gets shot at 4:45, and the fancy dancer in the derby hat at 8:13 are all played by the same actor, Broncho Billy Anderson. In 1958, he received an Honorary Academy Award as a "motion picture pioneer" for his "contributions to the development of motion pictures as entertainment."

[@bryansteele832]

It's crazy to think when this made, Butch Cassidey and the Sundance kid were still out there. Wyatt Earp was still alive. And Billy the kid and Jesse James died just 20 years earlier.

[@orbison]

And people were still alive to remember the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination!

[@KororaPenguin]

@@orbison Apparently there was a show in the 50's that actually interviewed a witness to Lincoln's murder.

[@orbison]

@KororaPenguin Yeah, I've Got A Secret. The man was Samuel J Seymour and he was the last survivng witness to that event. It's one of my favorite game show clips.

[@augustoharo3421]

Wyatt Earp lived enough to know John Wayne, who copied his manners.

[@BroncoKnight34]

2:06- he gets shot, stands up, does a twist, *then* falls dead. 🤣

[@emilal]

that’s just how people died in 1903

[@emilal]

@@betterversionn Touché

[@rami.alrajab]

Best death ever 😂

[@ealing456]

A very noble NPC death indeed.

[@frankuraku5622]

Spaghetti westerns did it better.

[@Milestonemonger]

This is why I am grateful for KZbin

[@oskaveli662]

120 years young this year. A film with a lot of character and charm.

[@KororaPenguin]

And as groundbreaking in its day as Peter Jackson's _Lord of the Rings_ trilogy would be a hundred years later.

[@gustavoparedes5975]

I wish modern movies were as entertaining as this. This is just a Red Dead mission

[@rocknroll909]

Damn I did not expect this to be this good. Genuinely thrilling to watch 118 years later.

[@zepps88]

1:29 The first ever camera pan in the history of cinema.

[@lukebailey1659]

zepps88 I’m afraid that honor belongs to Edison’s film Fifth Avenue, New York from six years before this!

[@lilper3134]

OH MY GOD

[@thethrillofpattaya8404]

@@lukebailey1659 ***wow***why be afraid Luke?***

[@Sanamehra48]

How beautifully they shown those outside activities (running train) by the windows and doors. Just mesmerizing ❤️

[@lauralai9694]

It's an awesome movie for 1903! With a great plot and a piece of terrific music! Thank you for uploading it!

[@kamikazyy-]

I was there in the movie theatre it was crazy good ol’ days

[@henryreyes9798]

That’s such a lie! this came out 117 years ago you idiot, stop friking lying this was the first movie ever made and you are dumb internet kid

[@liambeerens2148]

@@henryreyes9798 yo its just a joke lmao

[@timsmythfilmsandanimations]

Thanks for posting this. This cut has a few more seconds than my DVD has, where the train office clerk wakes up and tries to use the telegraph, mine just cuts from the forest shot of the bandits, to the clerk unconscious and the girl comes through the door. This print was also struck from a hand tinted prints, Great film overall, thanks again for posting.

[@oldfilmsandstuff4679]

Thanks, I've been meaning to combine this print with one that still has the colour tints although it's a little complex given how different the other versions are in terms of length and frame-rate.

[@RezaNemati]

“In every respect we consider it absolutely the superior of any moving picture ever made.” Edison Company Catalog, 1904

[@futurehistory2110]

As mentioned in other comments, it's great that we can watch this 120 years later. But (if civilization lasts) just imagine how people in the far future would feel, say 500 years from now or even 2,000 years from now being able to watch movies from 'ancient times'.

[@spacemonkey6120]

Martin Scorsese was inspired by the gun shot and the end for goodfellas and that's why Tommy shoots the gun

[@robertbruner7429]

According to articles I've read online in Post magazine, the accompaniment of piano or organ didn't become popular until the teens. And as these early silent movies were often shown in Vaudeville houses, they would have sound effects in order to add as much realism as possible. The Great Train Robbery is considered the first "blockbuster." The article states it should not be viewed so much for its innovation, but rather its promulgation of the media type.

[@zaidanahnaf9431]

This was when The Wild West hasn't even ended

[@artuszara2684]

This was just a normal heist film

[@overpricedhealthcare]

yeah, making a movie being set in the wild west in 1900s/1910s would be like making a movie set in the 1990s in the 202X

[@elias7748]

@@overpricedhealthcare I mean I'm sure that movie was set in their time, in the early 1900s.

[@overpricedhealthcare]

@@elias7748 that's kinda what i said

[@KororaPenguin]

Yeah, it was a straight-up crime drama.

[@UncannyValleyVideos]

The shot at 1:45 is breathtaking for its time. Also, the scene at 2:41.

[@gregrumpff5392]

The 1:45 shot appears as though the train is traveling at full speed but in the 2:41 shot, the train is clearly moving more slowly. I'm guessing we're to infer that the conductor heard the gunshots and is bringing the train to a halt as a result?

[@luiginastro8831]

Brilliant.

[@Johnnysmithy24]

Better cinematography than some modern movies lol

[@UnchainedEruption]

They actually are really good shots, yeah

[@verdemesa2904]

This movie has been so famous but I didn't have chance to see. Thank you for uploading.

[@average-jojo-enjoyer]

3:09 damn he is strong

[@yolotzinime]

Yea xD

[@sophie-m4n2s]

HELP SIDIEO

[@nerdysides2336]

WHO'S WATCHIGN THIS 117 YEARS LATER?

[@davidwesley2525]

I am👍

[@DemisLima]

The Great Train Robbery (1903), de Edwin S. Porter, é considerado como “o primeiro filme realmente cinematográfico pela fluidez e coerência da narrativa” (CANELAS). E foi esse diferencial contido em tal obra (o da narrativa sendo fortalecida através da justaposição de planos) um dos fatores responsáveis por levar o cinema a ocupar a posição que detém hoje, de “arte de contar uma estória através de imagens dispostas em uma sucessão de cenas precisamente organizadas."

[@J0hnTF2]

Viajem a lua}}}

[@luiginastro8831]

Imagine the reaction of people back then for the fourth wall break at the end. The magic of movies, indeed.

[@ealing456]

"Why, all you had to do was follow darn locomotive, CJ"

[@elias7748]

I find it cool that this wasn't a historical movie about the past when it came out. It was about events that happened during those times, and not some historical cowboy outlaw film.

[@Dragonrider1227]

The fact that I’m watching this on my phone would blow the minds of everyone involved in this

[@jamesm2078]

The Great Train Robbery, I read about this while typing a paper for my Communications class and after watching the movie, it’s beyond interesting. Now, I rewatched it for my Film 1895 to 1945 class and it’s a good look into how film was first made, especially with it also using cuts and different angles.

[@Z1ps.]

It’s been 120 years daddy, I really really miss you 🥺

[@random-kun]

The first action film It's been a long time and it still has that sweet simple yet classic kick to it

[@akkurtselcuk]

In the last scene, those in the cinema were really scared.

[@PlyzmP]

When the outlaw shots at the screen at the end was what inspired Tommy shoting at the screen in the ending of goodfellas.

[@3rd.Eye.Saw.Destruction]

The special effects are phenomenal

[@woodypearce2411]

Really impressive for 1903

[@killerdog001]

"in the halls of the mountain king" love the music choice

[@soundoffsilenterafilmrevie4]

I've watched and reviewed this incredibly old movie. Thanks for the upload. More people should see silent films!

[@gregrumpff5392]

00:19 and again at 00:40 Slight plothole. Passengers in arriving train could see the robbers through the window and should have alerted railroad employees in particular the "bulls" railroads hired to deal with just this type of thing. 00:30 Tickettaker is pistol whipped 1:45 Train at least appears to be moving at full speed based on the scenery through the open sidecar. 2:33 Pyrotechnic effect (robber explodes the safe) 2:41 Train slowing down as robbers advance toward the engine 2:51 Boiler stoker comes out armed with his shovel to fight a losing battle with the crooks. Between 3:00 and 3:03 they switch out the actor playing the stoker with a pretty obvious prop dummy which is hurled off the train at 3:09 3:55 I have no way to verify this but another commenter indicated this was atypical in most train robberies at the time: The robbers would simply have the seated passengers surrender their valuables instead of going to the trouble of making them get out of the locomotive first. Presumably, Edwin Porter did this to have a reason to include the shooting of a fleeing passenger at 4:48 That actor is a more convincing corpse than the mail clerk (who I assume we are to believe died, if not by gunfire then by shrapnel from the safe explosion) 5:36 Loading the ill-gotten gain into the engine 6:10 The getaway! 7:03 Meanwhile, back at the ticket office the ticket taker attempts to send an S. O.S. 7:52 Square dance time 8:12 "Here's how a REAL man does it..." 8:48 Sounding the alarm 9:42 Final showdown 10:26 Breaking the "fourth wall"

[@tasmiyarajput8315]

Good one 👌

[@arianam3720]

What is the "fourth wall"?

[@gregrumpff5392]

@@arianam3720 It's when actors acknowledge the presence of the camera by reacting to it directly. An example would be any time that "Jim" on the U.S. version of The Office reacted to one of Dwight's crazier pronouncements by turning to the camera and raising an eyebrow.

[@heisen-bones]

look at discount CinemaSins here

[@mallagallabumbum8209]

Breaking the fourth wall is not an error/movie sin. It's an artistic device. Also: don't judge dancing people.

[@killerflag9813]

Better quality than CCTV footage of robbery's

[@MarkBender]

Samuel L. Jackson was also in this. Reportedly the a working was, "Snakes on a Train". Jackson's most famous line in this film is " ".

[@Siraj75]

Actually his line was 'I'll be real good from now on Mr Cates!' but the scene was deleted.

[@mo2cubing]

The end shot is crazy lol

[@yovannirodriguez317]

Its been 121 years since this movie released, and i'm still watching🔥

[@nahidulislam7102]

David Wark Griffith (January 22, 1875 - July 23, 1948) was an American film director. Widely considered as the most important filmmaker of his generation, he pioneered financing of the feature-length movie. His film The Birth of a Nation (1915) made investors a profit, but also attracted much controversy, as it depicted African Americans in a negative light and glorified the Ku Klux Klan. Together with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks he founded United Artists, enabling them to control their own interests, rather than depending on commercial studios.

[@badpasters]

a wild west movie made *during* the wild west, the world is indeed full of wonders

[@elias7748]

Ikr. Awesome

[@anthonyfrias5533]

This is a film that really makes you smile

[@imarginacionmxd]

Nice content!

[@Milestonemonger]

From this to Clint Eastwood's masterpiece: Unforgiven. The Western genre will always be my absolute favorite 🐎

[@eldiablo3794]

Lmao 3:04 those special effects are so amazing and so life like that you can't even tell hes beating up on a straw dumby!

[@nolmusa5088]

This was the first movie screened in Albania in 1908.

[@adamgill537]

It's crazy that this was made eight years before the setting of Red Dead 1

[@aleksyssubmaker2745]

The only wild west train robbery that went smooth... ever.

[@irenevillarmangas4142]

Fue la primera peli con sonido! Increíble!

[@that1pieperson80]

This actually looks good

[@ap70621]

6:10 is shot on the old Lackawanna Railroad in Totowa, NJ. It is now part of I-80. You can see the Passaic River below when the robbers are running down the hill.

[@Axoltolion]

Some dude sat in the theater in 1903 and was like: YOOOOOOOOOO!

[@emersoduarte4348]

Only 1900's kids will remember 🔥🔥

[@Oldies90s]

My favourite silent film ever . salute sir edison

[@amatacook]

I smell O’driscolls...

[@StermaPerma]

darn lumbago

[@brendanthebomber.]

HAVE SOME FAITH ARTHUR

[@pokemongo-up3rq]

One more score, Arthur! ONE. MORE. SCORE!

[@el.tioangel_u.u5281]

En sintesis la pelicula trata de un robo organizado del siglo 19 demostrando el modo operandi de los malechores, igualmente aparce la inigualable sensibilidad del ser humano al ser apuntado con un arma, imaginar que esta pelicula es la iniciante en el genero de la pantalla verde, cuyo uso en la actualidad es usado en cada programa del mundo, en películas que te sorprenden con cada maravilla de sus aventuras. Es un honor poder ver este video, lamentable que no muchas personas no aprecien este arte.....

[@namashijabar5428]

I was invited to the premiere of this film when it came out. I got autographs from some of the actors and the director also. It was a grand party. We all got high and merry... This film was a major box office success back then and money was flowing like water. Good times!

[@_ShwetaPandey]

Sorry to ask but how old are you

[@TheKnoxvicious]

@@_ShwetaPandey 120 years young, duh

[@KororaPenguin]

Have I unwittingly crossed dimensions into the _Myst_ series and are you part D'ni?

[@Qsallor]

Better than today's marvel movies

[@tsayabal]

I Rembered when this was released. Life was simple and sweet. I voted for Roosevelt Theaters ran a special of popcorn and coke for a penny. The good ol days

[@matthewwyman1581]

Coca-Cola! I couldn’t get enough of that wonderful brain tonic. I wonder what was inside it?

[@trixzitailz4151]

This film was the first film ever to tell a complete story from beginning to end. Previous films were nothing more than a sene from every day life shown before the camera. Hence the term living pictures. When it debuted it caused a sensation in America and around the world no one had ever seen anything quite like it. The director Edwin s porter said years later the first night it was shown in New York they had to push people out the door and tell them to go home. They wanted to watch it over and over again. He New by that he had a hit. It set the standard for all other films for the next several years.

[@Gorondus]

The moment when your realise that none of them is alive today.

[@oldfilmsandstuff4679]

True, even the child would be about 120 years old

[@mariag2563]

They've all been dead for 50+ years.

[@Siraj75]

What!!! You mean they're all dead???

[@lilper3134]

Sad...

[@tomatomelvin]

@@oldfilmsandstuff4679 interestingly the oldest living person as of now was born in this same year (1903)

[@millabasset1710]

I prefer the original movie at 80p 18 frames a second.

[@juniourst3ven596]

Do you know which year the original film was released and another train robbery happened in 1962. Right or wrong?

[@carbonnier7742]

@@juniourst3ven596 The film was released 1903

[@renex_g3915]

This is a cowboy film when the wild west was still going

[@dguy0386]

that's probably the only reason this isn't considered the first western, it wasn't set in the time period on purpose, they just happened to make a movie during the last decade or so of the actual west!

[@OfMiceAndMegabytes]

Yep once the phone lines went up the west was never the same.

[@renex_g3915]

@A Fridge Too Far really no, the wild west ended oficially in 1910-1912 when a there was no clear frontier in the continental US, also, when the last territories in the west acquired statehood

[@overpricedhealthcare]

@@renex_g3915 i would say the wild west actually ended by the time riding horses stopped being a thing and women stopped wearing those fancy royalty-like dresses, around 1918ish

[@MagnumLoadedTractor]

There were also stunts done on festivals or something by criminals...outlaws that's the right word

[@wilstjb3122]

Robbers usually didn't take the time to empty out the passenger coaches. They robbed the passengers as they sat. Otherwise, good depiction of a generic train robbery.

[@rulebritannia8438]

Did you just critique a 118 year old film?

[@tasnimfatimaalvi5263]

​@@rulebritannia8438 lmfao -

[@CoolCademMAnimates-fz1ui]

A cinematic marvel of its time

[@gamers4life1]

I remember when this came out. So much fun

[@FrankGelbeet]

It was like...playing my beloved RDR1 Great movie! Beginner of everything

[@m.hts7]

Imagine you are watching dead people 💀

[@funnybonesbucknewton7261]

14 people must of got robbed on a train

[@NewAgeSlaves]

The wide shot for the shootout still looks good

[@farhonahmed5081]

farhan ahmed was here (fyi watching this for film class but enjoying it for entertainment)

[@vintage8546]

I SAW THaT and Im GoNNA TeLl ThE SHerifF

[@northwindkey]

Always loved the color of Silent Films. Tints, tones, hand-painted frames in some cases (Trip to the Moon). It's something that we lost for a while in Sound films because that was too expensive to do when they already had to spend budgets on shooting sound. Meaning we lost color until the 30s, and lost widespread color film until the late 50s. Hurting more was that the color of Silent Films wasn't preserved for a while, leaving most Public Domain prints in B&W even though that wasn't intentional, and leading to a false perception that attempts to colorize Silent Films is somehow a modern trend "ruining classic films" (The colorized restoration of Trip to the Moon was controversial for having color... even though the film DID have color when it was first made and the restoration was actually a faithful recreation). Even then, the surreal tints, tones, and paints used in Silent Films just look so pleasing to me even compared against true color. You wanna see a great usage of them, watch the 1995 restoration of Nosferatu. Not the 2006 restoration (Which over-did it with over-saturated colors that killed the atmosphere). It's gorgeous.

[@endangeredmexican9644]

Makes you wonder of how many films are actually lost and forgotten for ever

[@timecapsule.]

This is still good 119 years later.

[@flaccidwhitecoat]

Still waiting for the sequel

[@JackReynolds-w7g]

This is the last week in February 2024 - 121 years later. If you had this very same opportunity then in 1903, - you'd be watching a moving-picture from 1782 !

[@barrym.3338]

this is actually a pretty great train robbery

[@canman5060]

Most favorite movie from my childhood !