The Great Train Robbery a silent film made in 1903. It is a Western film written and produced and directed by Edwin S. Porter. The plot was based by true events that occurred on August 29,1900, when 4 members of George Leroy Parker's (Butch Cassidy) "Hole in the Wall' gang halted the No. 3 train on the Union Pacific Railroad tracts toward Table Rock, Wyoming. The bandits forced the conductor to uncouple the passenger cars form the back of the train and then blew up the safe in the mail car to escape with about $5,000 in cash.
The film is noted for its innovative techniques which had never been done such as: parallel editing, jump-cuts or cross-cuts. Because of the new techniques of the silent film it is now being preserved in the United States National Film Registry.
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