The great train robbery is one of the most well known films in history. It is so influential because it was one of the first complete films with a storyline ever made. This new technology was so important because it gave audiencies and the world a major shock. Thisnshock was the idea of a virtual world with a timeline. Moving pictures were so new that the aduience thought the train was really coming at them. This kind of entertainment was also brand new. The idea of a performance being perfectly replicated on a screen made the new medium accessible to the masses. Before entertainment and shows were just for broadway, now there was a possibility of doing something that could be shown multiple times a day.
This was also important because it set the sandard for the exaggerated acting in silent films. The acting seems almist silly to us today, but was necissary back then to fully communicate with the audience.
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