This 14-scene film is a landmark in the development of parallel editing, narrative cinema, the crime film, and the Western. Cinematographer-producer-director Edwin S. Porter combined location shooting with footage shot inside the Edison studios, employing many of the new filmmaking techniques that would define cinema's second decade. Porter combines multiple forms of in-frame movement with both subtle and dramatic turns of the camera, structuring everything around a famous close-up of the criminal leader firing directly at the audience. Preserved by the Library of Congress.