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The 17 pages that link to The Great Train Robbery, each with the reason it gives.

• Silent filmBroader topic: It became an influential example of narrative construction in early cinema.

• Continuity editingBroader topic: Its editing helped demonstrate how separate shots could construct connected action.

• Western filmBroader topic: Its action and outdoor staging helped establish early screen Western conventions.

• Action filmBroader topic: Its robbery, gunplay, and pursuit helped establish early screen action as a popular attraction.

• NickelodeonBroader topic: Its popularity illustrates the appealing short films available to early movie theaters.

• IntertitleBroader topic: Its inserted explanatory titles show an early narrative use of written film cards.

• Cross-cuttingBroader topic: Its shifting among locations helped establish editing patterns later developed into cross-cutting.

• Close-upBroader topic: Its final shot famously presents a bandit firing directly toward the camera in close framing.

• Crime filmBroader topic: Its staged robbery and chase anticipate crime cinema's action-driven plots.

• Film (motion picture)Broader topic: Its editing and staged action became influential in the development of narrative filmmaking.

• The Wild BunchCompared with: Its early outlaw imagery offers a distant cinematic ancestor to Peckinpah’s far more disillusioned bandits.

• Cinema of attractionsCompared with: Its narrative construction coexists with a famous shot designed as a direct visual shock.

• Edwin S. PorterBroader topic: Its parallel action, location shooting, and famous close-up made Porter’s best-known experiment in screen storytelling.

• History of filmBroader topic: Its popular success illustrates how early cinema developed storytelling through staged action and cuts.

• William Kennedy DicksonRelated: Biograph’s growth under Dickson’s early leadership preceded this influential development in American filmmaking.

• L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La CiotatCompared with: Its constructed narrative contrasts with the Lumières’ brief observational railway view.

• WesternBroader topic: Its popular success helped establish screen Westerns as a recognizable film form.