A Century Of Progress - In Locomotion (1925)

British Pathé
British Pathé
2.5 هزار بار بازدید - 10 سال پیش - No title - paperwork reads
No title - paperwork reads - 1825 - 1925.  A century of progress in Locomotion.  Look back a 100 years and see the first railway engine used on the Stockton-Darlington - the first railway line in the world.  Darlington, Durham.



M/S of the old engine, a man sits on it and rings a bell.  The engine is small with two shafts in the middle and a huge funnel on the front.  M/S of the shafts moving up and down. (Note: the title is shown here).



Intertitle - 'Compare L.N.E.R. latest Express Pacific type 150 ton engine capable of 78 miles per hour!'



M/S of the two engines side by side driving up the track, the new sleek engine dwarfs the old one.  M/S of the two together, they have stopped and the two drivers are talking to each other.  M/S of the front of both the engines.  M/S as the camera pans up the big funnel on the front of the old engine, then pans up the round nose of the new one. L/S of the two of them together showing the difference in size and shape.  M/S various shots as the driver of the old engine rings his bell.



Intertitle - '12 to 15 miles an hour was the highest speed.'   M/S of the shafts moving up and down and the bell ringing.



Intertitle - 'the tail lamp was a bucket of burning coal.'  M/S of the coal bucket suspended  from the back.  Various shots of the two trains together, M/S as they drive off down the track, the old one going more slowly.  M/S of them stood together.



Note: there is a shorter version of this item with the same title and containing some of the same footage which is tinted orange.  It is on *PM0388*.
FILM ID:388.11

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