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From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies

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31: 189:. Two bandits erect a pile of logs on the line, causing the engineer to stop the train. The bandits systematically rob the passengers at gunpoint and then make their getaway along the tracks. Later, they hijack a horse and cart. 215:. What is unique about this film, however, is that it was a fiction film rather than simply a scenic film, as other Hale Tours films had been. Realistic sound effects were added to the experience. 657: 642: 242:
While it is unknown what specific music was used to accompany the original film, MIT music professor Martin Marks provided accompaniment for inclusion of the film in
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is an example of the "phantom rides" genre of film, which show the film from the perspective of the railcar.
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genre a step further by transforming a railcar into a theatre to show these films. Such was the case with
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intended to be historically representative of the genre. Selections included
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with the holdup scene inside the railcar being shot in the
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Wallace McCutcheon
Frank J. Marion
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company
G.W. Bitzer
Silent
short
silent
Western film
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company
Wallace McCutcheon
Frank J. Marion
G.W. Bitzer
Rocky Mountains
Leadville, Colorado
Aspen
Hale's Tours of the World
phantom ride
Phoenicia, New York
Ulster and Delaware Railroad
Biograph studio
More Treasures from American Film Archives
She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain When She Comes
A Guide to Silent Westerns
Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN
978-03-13278-58-7
"Review of More Treasures from American Film Archives, 1894-1931"
doi
10.1353/mov.2005.0025

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