When it comes to Westerns, you’d be forgiven for thinking they must all have been filmed in America. But new research has revealed that the first ever Western was actually filmed in England – Blackburn in Lancashire to be precise.
‘Kidnapping By Indians’ is about a pair of cowboys who rescue a white woman from native American kidnappers. Rather than being shot in the United States, the two-minute movie was shot in Lancashire countryside in 1899 – four years before The Great Train Robbery which until now was widely seen as the genre’s first film.
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