This early British film from the Sheffield Photographic company was one of two films that heavily influenced Edwin S. Porter when making The Great Train Robbery - a film which is erroneously credited with creating the narrative film. This film - at five minutes, quite long for its day - depicts, well, a daring daylight robbery, which is witnessed by a conscientious young boy who races to a nearby police station to raise the alarm. The film then follows the police's pursuit of the burglar over rooftops, down hillsides and across rivers, and it all makes for quite an exciting spectacle. I have to say the British were leading the way in the early years of the 20th century when it came to film production. While Edison and Vitagraph were shooting street scenes ad-nauseum, the Brits were coming up with action-packed blockbusters like this.
Review of Daylight Burglary
