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The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American
silent film made by
Edwin S. Porter for the
Edison Manufacturing Company. It follows a gang of outlaws who hold up and rob a steam locomotive at a station in the American West, flee across mountainous terrain, and are finally defeated by a posse of locals. The
short film draws on many sources, including a robust existing tradition of
Western films, recent European innovations in film technique, the play of the same name by
Scott Marble, the popularity of train-themed films, and possibly real-life incidents involving outlaws such as
Butch Cassidy.Film credit:
Edwin S. Porter
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Archive One of user talk, ending May 4, 2005
I made some edits to a page you had previously worked on. My comments about the recent round of edits to the List of Zeta Psi chapters is on the Talk page. If you have continuing interest and time, I'd welcome your review. You'd also be welcome to join the Fraternities and Sororities Project. If I read correctly your reasons for semi-retiring, I concur that edit wars and Deletionism has been a problem. For us, we police these articles within our area of interest, and have kept the Deletionists and other trolls at bay. We now monitor several thousand pages, and are actively improving them. Jax MN ( talk) 22:02, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
As a fellow engineer, I believe that you should undo removal of [[Category:Wikipedian engineers|Sunborn]]
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The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 American
silent film made by
Edwin S. Porter for the
Edison Manufacturing Company. It follows a gang of outlaws who hold up and rob a steam locomotive at a station in the American West, flee across mountainous terrain, and are finally defeated by a posse of locals. The
short film draws on many sources, including a robust existing tradition of
Western films, recent European innovations in film technique, the play of the same name by
Scott Marble, the popularity of train-themed films, and possibly real-life incidents involving outlaws such as
Butch Cassidy.Film credit:
Edwin S. Porter
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Archive One of user talk, ending May 4, 2005
I made some edits to a page you had previously worked on. My comments about the recent round of edits to the List of Zeta Psi chapters is on the Talk page. If you have continuing interest and time, I'd welcome your review. You'd also be welcome to join the Fraternities and Sororities Project. If I read correctly your reasons for semi-retiring, I concur that edit wars and Deletionism has been a problem. For us, we police these articles within our area of interest, and have kept the Deletionists and other trolls at bay. We now monitor several thousand pages, and are actively improving them. Jax MN ( talk) 22:02, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
As a fellow engineer, I believe that you should undo removal of [[Category:Wikipedian engineers|Sunborn]]