right|thumb|240px|Justus D. Barnes in Western apparel, as "Bronco Billy Anderson", from the silent film The Great Train Robbery (1903), the second Western film and the first one shot in the United States alt=|thumb|right|250px|The Great Train Robbery full film (1903); runtime 00:11:51. The American Film Institute defines Western films as those "set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier". Originally, these films were called "Wild West dramas", a reference to Wild West shows like Buffalo Bill Cody's. The term "Western", used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture World magazine.
right|thumb|240px|Justus D. Barnes in Western apparel, as "Bronco. Billy Anderson", from the silent film !The Great Train Robbery (1903), the second Western film and the first one shot in the United States alt=|thumb|right|250px|The Great Train Robbery full film (1903); runtime 00:11:51. The American Film Institute defines Western films as ?those "set in the American West that [embody] the spirit, the struggle, and the demise of the new frontier". Originally, these films were called "Wild West dramas", a reference to Wild West shows like Buffalo Bill Cody's. The term "Western", used to describe a narrative film genre, appears to have originated with a July 1912 article in Motion Picture World magazine.