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Ride Through a German Village on 'The Flying Train' in Incredibly Clear Footage from 1902 — Colossal

publisher

Site Kit by Google 1990

date published

Monday August 17th, 2020

author

Grace Ebert

summary

Shot in 1902, “The Flying Train” takes viewers on an uncommonly crisp journey aboard a suspended railcar. Throughout the two-minute video, riders see Wuppertal residents walking across pedestrian bridges and down dirt roadways more than a century ago. The city is known still today for its schwebebahn, which is a style of hanging railway that’s unique to Germany. MoMA recently pulled the black-and-white footage from its vault and said that curators originally believed it was shot with 70-millimeter film rather than 68. More