The Fascinating Story of 1903’s Biggest Movie

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The Great Train Robbery (1903) might be one of the most significant movies ever made. so I went down the rabbit hole to learn more about it. I hope you enjoy this little journey throughout film history!
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Chapters:
0:00 The connection between Goodfellas and The Great Train Robbery
2:36 The early days of film
3:32 Why is The Great Train Robbery important
6:12 The legacy of The Great Train Robbery
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Toni's Film Club is all about interesting film history, movies, directing, writing, editing and everything else that goes into this wonderful art form. Oh yeah, and bad jokes. You've been warned.
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@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

After 70+ hours of researching, writing and editing, I am SO happy to finally have this video out. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did making it, and If you did, feel free to subscribe, so you don't miss the future ones. They take forever to make, so it will be like a little cinema loving gift blessing your RU-vid feed every now and then. How cool is that? - Toni

@Slickback420 Год назад

Where did you find all this information? I am doing a paper on this film.

@TonisFilmClub Год назад

@@Slickback420 It was mainly from a few books from the danish film institute's library plus wikipedia / articles online. What is your paper about? Good luck!

@PhyzzFizz 9 месяцев назад

as a side, the cut from Goodfellas, has background music, taken from the movie, the great rock n roll swindle, in the scene where sid viscous is on stage in paris, singing My Way, and at the end of the song, he pulls out a revolver and shoots into the audience. turns his back and walks away, its a bit of a random and meaningless scene in that movie too, so may also be a nod to the great train robbery and then given a second nod in Goodfellas.

@mansonunu 9 месяцев назад

"Movies weren't just moving pictures anymore, they were stories" that was powerful

@TonisFilmClub 9 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@rce723 9 месяцев назад

I teach a university film class, and I must say, you've done an excellent job succinctly capturing both the real historical significance of this early film and the myths that have developed around it in the subsequent 100+ years.

@TonisFilmClub 9 месяцев назад

This is such a high praise, especially coming from someone in your position. Thank you very much, and thank you for teaching film!

@timalef66 2 года назад

Dude. This is one of the coolest movie videos I've ever seen. It's really a lot of work. You have an amazing voice and editing skills. Just keep going in that direction. ❤️🎥👍

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

I'm literally going to print this comment and put it in my wall. Thank you so much, really appreciate it!

@RRaquello 2 года назад

The first time I saw this movie, I was a high school student back around 1978. It’s scary to think that when I first saw it, it was newer than Gone With The Wind or Casablanca is now.

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

That's so interesting! Was it a part of a class?

@RRaquello 2 года назад

@@TonisFilmClub No, I had a Super 8 projector and got a copy of this film, so watched it at home. I used to have a lot of old films, mostly comedies like Laurel & Hardy, Our Gang, 3 Stooges, etc. That was before home VCR's. It was a fun hobby, soon to become defunct.

@WoolyPronto 2 года назад

What an incredible legacy for him to leave behind! And you managed to tell this story in such a compelling way. Amazing video!

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Thank you so much! He definitely deserves a lot of credit for his contribution to cinema!

@Pioneers_Of_Cinema Год назад

@@TonisFilmClub The producer of Great Train Robbery was Edison and I read that he thought the future of the industry was more in the kinetoscope - a one person at a time coin operated peep show running short loops (his factory had also created the kinetograph movie camera) and arcades that he had invested in, rather than the huge projected image concept within giant theatres that were built to accommodate the subsequent enormous demand.

@TonisFilmClub Год назад

@@Pioneers_Of_Cinema Correct. You might enjoy the video I made about Alice Guy-Blaché which also touches on that topic: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3rVQI-PNwTg.html

@Pioneers_Of_Cinema Год назад

@@TonisFilmClub Viewed your Alice Guy-Blaché video and it is absolutely a fine tribute to the remarkable woman. I just re-scored her 'Fallen Leaves' short film - keen to hear what you think of the new music.

@BartuskaFilmProductions Год назад

I'm a new high school film teacher and your videos have been an incredible resource when teaching about the early days of film. Keep doing what you're doing, please!!

@TonisFilmClub Год назад

I looooove this. Your students are lucky!

@mrs.g.9816 8 месяцев назад

I never thought about the similar endings for both The Great Train Robbery and Goodfellas. Interesting! I always thought The Great Train Robbery advanced for its time, and it's even fun to watch. Thanks for sharing!

@stevenr540 Год назад

THANK YOU for your time and curation in these videos. At 6:20 I learned from the 1903 "New York Times" article that the action in the film "represents an actual robbery, perpetrated by the James boys and Younger brothers in the western hills years ago..." WOW, thank you for including this, and for all your preservation work!

@TonisFilmClub Год назад

Much appreciated, thank you!

@MajorNoob Год назад

Underrated channel 💯

@TonisFilmClub Год назад

Thank you!

@EnchantedEssays 2 года назад

This is, hands down, the best first video I've ever seen, especially from someone in our niche. Congratulations!

@1001-1 Год назад

Your video really taught me a lot, Thank you so much!

@TonisFilmClub Год назад

Happy to hear!

@liltick102 14 дней назад

“And then IT hit me” was a very Sam O’Nella Academy move, I loved it, also great video

@TonisFilmClub 14 дней назад

Good call! Thank you!

@SydneyVolpe 7 месяцев назад

This is such an incredible video, thank you!! I was looking into this movie because one of the posters for David Fincher's 'The Killer' was inspired by that shot of him pointing the gun at the camera. Cool stuff, and really appreciate all the work that went into this vid.

@TonisFilmClub 7 месяцев назад

Excited about The Killer! And thank you, really appreciate the kind words!

@abishorynbassarov1274 2 года назад

a story worth to tell

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Absolutely!

@MartinIvanov 2 года назад

Great job dude :) keep it up

@JeekayTenn Год назад

Great video man :) I just finished Goodfellas and stumbled across this video!

@TonisFilmClub Год назад

Glad you enjoyed, you just reminded me it's time for my yearly Goodfellas rewatch!

@GarretRB 2 года назад

Wow great video it’s hard to believe it’s your first

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Thank you so much!

@ItsTorben 2 года назад

Great video! Keep them coming! Just getting my way through film history and watching a bunch of films on RU-vid and yours was suggested after The Great Train robbery. You earned a new sub!

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Thank you, I appreciate that! Excited for your journey through film history, there are so many interesting things there!

@faruksartas1035 2 года назад

I just wanted to learn how they managed to shoot the shot at the ending but i learned more important things about this film, thanks to you. Especially cross-cutting part. I didn't notice when i was watching the movie. Great video.

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Good question! My bet would be that they had blanks back then too and now you know for a fact I will be spending some time researching it haha Happy you found it interesting!

@simeonmironov9481 2 года назад

Instant subscribe!!

@MattAndImprov Год назад

5:32. Great match cut!

@TonisFilmClub Год назад

You are the only one to notice it. Great catch!

@zunnfix8295 2 года назад

Excellent work! You just earned a new subscriber. Good luck!

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Thank you so much. Welcome to the club!

@noremacmurphy Год назад

Great video. Well done. Thank you.

@TonisFilmClub Год назад

Thank you!

@SgtZaqq 2 года назад

Great video! I've stumbled upon it on accident when trying to find the original video. You deserve much more views.

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Well, I for one am very happy about that accident! Thank you, I am literally just starting out, so hopefully more people will stumble upon the videos as I make them. Definitely plenty in the works!

@xolotte 2 года назад

Super interesting video! Looking forward to more like this :)

@dashkmr 2 года назад

Superb! Thanks for the video and all the work behind it. Looking forward to seeing more :)

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! Next video will be live in just a few days!!

@user-vb1qn8ce1j 2 года назад

That was amazing! Thank you so much for your work 💕

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Thank you so much for checking it out! Glad you enjoyed it!

@mikeyfarrelly 2 года назад

Brilliant video Toni. Thank you for your amazing work on this.

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Thank you, happy you think so! Next one is already on the way!

@kelechi_77 2 года назад

What a great video man, I bet this channel will do well in a couple months

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Thank you! Let's hope you are right haha But either way, those videos are so much fun to make I'm equally excited whether I have 100 people watching or 1000000

@omrimg Год назад

Just found this channel and it looks very high-quality and promising. Subbed, good luck!

@TonisFilmClub Год назад

Thank you, I hope you stick around! Some pretty exciting things in the works.

@ss.gabriel_santana 8 месяцев назад

What a good video... Greetings from Brazil.

@ARandomKids 2 года назад

Amazing video!! Saw this trying to find cool stuff about good fellas and then saw a underrated channel

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Thank you! Happy to hear that, seriously!

@Camibug Год назад

Just found your channel (your tears video was linked in the Reddit “Sisterwives” show subreddit of all places lol). You have a great channel, very well made videos! Keep it up! Hope your channel blows up!

@TonisFilmClub Год назад

No way! That's hilarious. I'm going to go there to hunt down who linked it and thank them. Do you happen to remember the post? But seriously, thank you! Really appreciate the kind words.

@GiggleBlizzard 2 года назад

Love it, this was great. I'm currently watching The Student of Prague from 1913 and it's incredible to see something made by people who hadn't even lived through, let a lone really been able to concieve the total annihilation kind of war that would strike twice afterwards. Such a different culture.

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Very well said. Haven't seen that one before, will definitely give it a watch!

@GiggleBlizzard 2 года назад

@@TonisFilmClub Out of the uploads on youtube I've found this one is in the best quality, and has what I assume is the original colour tinting, as opposed to those converted to pure black and white. watch?v=-aog8MKJqRU PS: Just discovered your channel through youtube and watched all your vids so far. Great stuff, keep it up! Easy subscribe.

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Thank you, I really appreciate it! And thanks for sharing!

@GiggleBlizzard 2 года назад

@@TonisFilmClub Just finished it and as a movie I don't really like it, it's not very good, but it's still cool to see. Watch The Phantom Carriage from 1921 instead if you want an actually good silent film.

@theashtubereviews 2 года назад

This is awesome, only learnt about this connection recently, awesome work

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Martin Scorsese is an encyclopedia of film knowledge. Always cool to see references in his movies, you might enjoy "Hugo" too.

@theashtubereviews 2 года назад

@@TonisFilmClub i have watching lots of noirs and gangster movies from the 30s amd 40s amd it is really interesting seeing where all the cliches come from. The origional 1932 scsrface for example introduces so much and in particular the coin flipping gangster amd the use of X as a symbol before death

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

You may or may hove not just given me a great idea for a video!

@theashtubereviews 2 года назад

@@TonisFilmClub I was hoping I would

@bekksplore4669 2 года назад

Incredible work here! you've done some thorough research and editing, will happily be sharing this link with my class as a great example of Video Essay work as well as for the history lesson! :D Can't wait to see more from you!

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Thank you so much, that is so lovely to hear! Are you a teacher?

@bekksplore4669 2 года назад

@@TonisFilmClub I teach at a film school! :D

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

No way! The thought of my video being played to a film school class is both hilarious and really cool. If you end up doing it, and have a second to snatch a photo, please tweet it to me @tonivgenov or send it any other way you'd prefer. Would love to have that one for the books! But in any case, you sound like a really cool teacher, your class is lucky!

@TenereAMir 9 месяцев назад

......I just realized that's basically the plot of RDR2 as well. You're a cool badass bunch of outlaws, you do some great heists (and the train heists are among the most notable, and even pays homage to movies like The Assassination of Jesse James and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid,etc). By the end, the gang is falling apart trying to kill each other, and then the cops (Pinkertons) show up. Now, the cops getting them all is delayed several years, but in the end... the cops do get them all. I love how skilled storytellers, writers, game developers, movie directors, animators, etc... can basically retell these very same stories over and over and do it in fresh ways so we don't immediately recognize the tropes and plots.

@TonisFilmClub 9 месяцев назад

hahaha that’s awesome. I have to rewatch it now with a completely new perspective.

@toastnjam7384 9 месяцев назад

Fun Fact: This was the first movie to be remade in the nearly identical The Great Train Robbery (1904)

@TonisFilmClub 9 месяцев назад

2 Great 2 Robbery

@Pioneers_Of_Cinema Год назад

Thank you for the wonderful and insightful analysis. Fascinating to study how this art form was created, via technological innovations, and then became a magical and commercially enormous industry.

@TonisFilmClub Год назад

Thank you so much, happy to see likeminded people :)

@sirbanana5352 2 года назад

I was so interested in this video that I didn’t even notice that it only had 3k VIEWS. WTF?!

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Glad to hear you enjoyed it! I was actually pumped it got any views at all because I JUST started the channel with 0 subscribers. But yeah, it will take some time until people find out about it, but you are more than welcome to spread the word and share it around the wide corners of the internet - I really appreciate it!

@cinemaretrospective 11 месяцев назад

This was such a great video! Informative and entertaining. You’ve earned a new subscriber.

@TonisFilmClub 11 месяцев назад

Thank you! Just recording the voice over for the next video and got this nice notification. Really appreciated! Your channel looks like a great rabbit hole I will dive into later today haha

@cinemaretrospective 11 месяцев назад

@@TonisFilmClub oh thank you! Do you mind if I share your channel on my community tab? I think my viewers would enjoy your work.

@TonisFilmClub 11 месяцев назад

@@cinemaretrospective You are more than welcome to. Thank you!

@finalstation 9 месяцев назад

Imagine experiencing it back then.

@TonisFilmClub 9 месяцев назад

Must have been mind blowing!

@vedanshgure9022 2 года назад

this video was really cool . keep it going

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Thank you! New video is on the way, I hope you stick around for it!

@vedanshgure9022 2 года назад

@@TonisFilmClub yeah sure. eagerly waiting .

@simplyminecraft1000 Год назад

great video

@danielfee33 11 месяцев назад

Great great video!!

@TonisFilmClub 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much, happy you enjoyed! I hope you check out the rest of the channel too - plenty more film history!

@danielfee33 11 месяцев назад

@@TonisFilmClub I absolutely will! I also talk about film on my channel- but I interview filmmakers! Keep up the great work!

@TonisFilmClub 11 месяцев назад

Oh that's awesome! Currently watching the one you did with Christopher Macquarie. Great job interviewing! How are you able to set them up?

@sluaink 2 года назад

I loved this video and I’m looking forward for more of ur film content!! congrats :)) also, if The Great Train Robbery wasn’t the first narrative film, which was it?

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Thank you so much, I really appreciate I! It is a bit of a grey area regarding which movie would classify as the very first narrative, but most people would probably bet on the early works of Georges Méliès such as "A Trip to the Moon" from 1902 and "Joan of Arc" from 1900, Unfortunately a lot of silent films from that time period are lost so we would probably never be able to tell for sure.

@bobbg9041 2 года назад

Historical speaking we need to preserve every year of movies every made becuse we can trace back each time somthing new came along to come up with the magic you see today on films like the movie Avatar and its ground breaking technology used to make it very life like. And add a new dimension to movies we'd never seen before.

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Yes absolutely. Unfortunately a huge amount of silent films is forever lost, but as you say we should be better at it now!

@Pioneers_Of_Cinema Год назад

@@TonisFilmClub Up to 90% by some estimates pre-sound track era films lost for good. I've managed to find some 35mm nitrate clips from otherwise lost movies which I've put on my other channel.

@liltick102 14 дней назад

2:58 did you edit that? Looks better than I’ve ever seen it

@TonisFilmClub 14 дней назад

Yes!

@liltick102 14 дней назад

@@TonisFilmClub I was watching / rewatching a lot of cinema before cinema was cinema stuff (so the book recommendation is perfect, I know Alice Guy Blaché), as well as archived film’s - found Pussy’s Breakfast which tbh was just aesthetically nice - and went on to try and find every pre 1910 film involving cats and breakfast, ideally both, there are unsurprisingly not many left, I found about 16 titles such as Kiero’s Cat that are entirely lost, and 5 film’s not including the one you used (albeit Mme Koehler in it is in both Pussy’s Breakfast and The little girl and her cat as far as I know) - anyway 💀 that’s how I found your channel

@paristo 2 месяца назад

1903 a movie is long when it is 12 minutes. In 1927 a movie is long when it is 5 ½ hours long....

@KororaPenguin 2 месяца назад

This was as groundbreaking in its time as Peter Jackson's _Lord of the Rings_ adaptation would be a century later.

@mbis86 2 года назад

Breaking the fourth wall already in 1903! WTF

@MunchYoutube 4 месяца назад

I think its funny that the movie was filmed when cowboys were still around😅

@ZachLipovsky 2 года назад

Keep it up Toni! Start a Patreon and I'll sign up.

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

Funny you mention that - starting a Patreon is 100% in the plans for me, I'm just waiting for the right moment to do it. Some of the things I want to do there is extended "Director's Commentary" videos with a lot of additional information from my research that I just couldn't fit in the final video, montly live Q&A + all kinds of bloopers, deleted scenes and more. It is pretty encouraging to know that there is at least 1 person who would sign up haha What is something that you would like to see there if I make one? Also, pretty cool to see you in here!

@pegasusactua2985 2 года назад

Towards the beginning of this video when you did that brief montage of movies by decade. What was that movie from the 1910s with the man and woman in the field?

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

It is from a silent film from 1915 called "After Death".

@pegasusactua2985 2 года назад

@@TonisFilmClub Thank you for responding and so quickly too.

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

No worries! I pretty much live on RU-vid.

@DustyB 3 месяца назад

I liked the framed picture of Martin Scorsese

@TonisFilmClub 3 месяца назад

It is now on my nightstand

@judeedwards7192 Год назад

Fun fact: It was also the first action movie ever made

@TonisFilmClub Год назад

Also arguably the first western.

@Pioneers_Of_Cinema Год назад

@@TonisFilmClub Agree with you - it certainly laid the groundwork for the genre.

@John-nb6ep 6 месяцев назад

A Trip to the Moon came out a year before. It was more impressive.

@weronika2339 Год назад

wow

@ronwhichel4946 7 месяцев назад

I am 83 years old and my grandfather John S. Whichel was an extra in the filming of this movie in 1903. At the time, he lived in Lyndhurst, N.J. and had just been discharged from the U.S. Army. He was a cavalry trooper in troop B, 3rd. US Cav. The film maker was looking for extras with a lot of experience in working with horses. Who better than a US Cavalry trooper? I think I even have an old photo taken during the filming. I really enjoyed your vidio. Thanks, Ron

@relarin952 2 года назад

Its clear you put a lot of effort into this video but what inspired you to do this all?

@TonisFilmClub 2 года назад

I just love cinema, movies and film history. Can talk about it all day, every day, so I thought I'd share the love and nerd out with likeminded people. Plus I get to do some really stupid jokes which for some reason make me laugh.

@GarretRB 2 года назад

I hope you gain some traction from this