It is epitomized by the work of several prominent directors including: The period from 1940 to 1960 has been called the "Golden Age of the Western". So popular was the genre that he soon faced competition from Tom Mix and William S. The film's popularity opened the door for Anderson to become the screen's first Western star he made several hundred Western film shorts.
Nonetheless, they concur that Porter's film "set the pattern-of crime, pursuit, and retribution-for the Western film as a genre". Everson point out (as mentioned above) that the "Edison company had played with Western material for several years prior to The Great Train Robbery". Porter's film starring Broncho Billy Anderson, is often erroneously cited as the first Western, though George N.
The Great Train Robbery (1903, based on the earlier British film A Daring Daylight Burglary), Edwin S. The earliest known Western narrative film is the British short Kidnapping by Indians, made by Mitchell and Kenyon in Blackburn, England, in 1899. These featured veterans of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show exhibiting skills acquired by living in the Old West – they included Annie Oakley (shooting) and members of the Sioux (dancing). The first films that belong to the Western genre are a series of short single reel silents made in 1894 by Edison Studios at their Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
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