Who produced the first western film (American)? Who produced the first western talkie?

The first WESTERN Film

The first WESTERN Film was copyrighted by the American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. on 21 September 1903. One was titled Kit Carson and related the story of its hero’s capture by Indians and subsequent escape through the agency of a beautiful Indian maiden. There were 11 scenes and the film had a running-time of 21 min. The other film, titled The Pioneers, showed the burning of a settler’s homestead by Indians, who kill the homesteader and wife and carry off his daughter. The film ends with the dramatic rescue of the child by frontiersmen who have found the bodies of her parents. Running time was approximately 15 min. Both films were released in August 1904.

The more celebrated The Great Train Robbery, generally described as the first Western and often as the first film to tell a story, was copyrighted by the Edison Co. on 1 December 1903.

The first WESTERN TALKIE was Fox Movietone’s In Old Arizona, directed by Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings, with Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter and Dorothy Burgess, and presented at the Fox West Coast Criterion Theater, Los Angeles on 25 December 1928. Billed as `The First All-Talking Outdoor Picture’, it was shot on location in Zion National Park and Bryce Canyon in Utah, in the Mohave Desert at the San Fernando Mission in California—almost anywhere except Old Arizona