Notice how the cowboy shoots directly at the audience. This was disconcerting for a lot of moviegoers back then.
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This is the last scene in Edwin S. Porter's "The Great Train Robbery," when the leader of the outlaws, played by Justus D. Barnes, empties his pistol at the audience. It cause quote a fright in theaters because no one had seen anything like it before.
