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.
The Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
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