The Sheffield Photographic Company was a family photographic business run by Frank Mottershaw. Some of the family toured with projection equipment, giving film shows in different parts of the country and, like William Haggar, Mottershaw made his own films. Daring Daylight Burglary entered the Edison Catalogue as Daylight Robbery but little is known about Robbery of the Mail Coach which apparently no longer exists. What is clear is that Edwin Porter was inspired by Mottershaw's films to make his own version of a train robbery, for The Great Train Robbery was made later that year. It is instructive to consider the structure and editing of The Great Train Robbery because, although it marks an important point in the development of cinema, in some ways it also defines a point from which filmmaking was restarted.