Speed Graphic Film and Video | The New York Central in "Rhapsody of the Rails" (1933) @SpeedGraphicFilmVideo | Uploaded February 2019 | Updated October 2024, 11 hours ago.
This film, originally made for Fox's "Magic Carpet of Movietone" series of travel shorts, features passenger trains on the New York Central's Hudson Division. Scenes include the pre-streamlined 20th Century Limited and numerous shots of the NYC's new Hudson locomotives.
Like many early sound films, this feature was made to be shown in either sound or silent formats. The soundtrack is almost entirely music and sound effects, with little if any actual location sound.
I have edited about two minutes out of the original feature, mostly to eliminate some heavy-handed attempts at humor that just aren't funny any more.
This film, originally made for Fox's "Magic Carpet of Movietone" series of travel shorts, features passenger trains on the New York Central's Hudson Division. Scenes include the pre-streamlined 20th Century Limited and numerous shots of the NYC's new Hudson locomotives.
Like many early sound films, this feature was made to be shown in either sound or silent formats. The soundtrack is almost entirely music and sound effects, with little if any actual location sound.
I have edited about two minutes out of the original feature, mostly to eliminate some heavy-handed attempts at humor that just aren't funny any more.
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This short video brings together three pieces of film from the Prelinger Collection, all taken by non-professional, non-railfan filmmakers.
0:06 : On a beautiful California day, a Southern Pacific Coast Daylight consist arrives at a station. Location and date unknown, though not before 1941, when the GS-4 and the two-unit articulated chair cars seen here debuted. Taken by E. B. Foltz.
0:28 : This anonymous photographers primary job was to take a time-lapse film of a building being constructed. But from time to time, he would turn the camera on the passing trains. Location unknown. The Internet Archive says this was taken in 1947.
0:57 : The Coast Daylight arriving in San Francisco (?) in 1941. Another great shot of a GS-4 and its beautiful consist. Taken by John H. Summers.")
