A Wild and Impractical Scheme
A Wild and Impractical Scheme
The Railroad Series combines archivals and drawings with live action gathered from historic operating railroads throughout the U.S. and Canada. This is the story of railroads from their beginnings, to a generation or so later, Originally shot on film. Many nice historical re-enactments (recreations).
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CU demonic figurehead at bow of clipper ship; tilting TLS rigging of tall mast clipper, stop at flat crow's nest; MS old American flag with 15 stars flying from clipper, pan to several tall masts. Nice shot of rippling water, as seen through window of old canal boat sailing on river. MS two horses with reins & blinders pulling old buggy wagon, spoked yellow wooden wheels passing cam; TLS horses pulling carriage. MS two white-haired oxen pulling wagon loaded with timber. TLS stagecoach pulled by two horses in rural setting.
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DO NOT SELL: Illustration of Col. John Stevens.
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Excellent MSs gray steam rising from stack of train, obscurring the sun.
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DO NOT SELL: Intro Credits.
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CU spoked wooden stagecoach wheel turning. LS canal boat being pulled by donkey or horse. TLS riverboat in river, spewing steam, paddle wheel. MS stagecoach (Sleepy Hollow Ranches); CU yellow wagon wheel turning; CU legs & hooves of horses pulling wagon. CU wooden wagon wheel stuck in mud. Reenactment shots of boat on Erie Canal, donkey pulling boat. MS paddle wheel of old timey steamboat; TLS/LSs steamboat Aleck Scott sailing along river, blowing steam whistle; MS captain, wearing white shirt & suspenders, piloting boat w/ large wheel; LSs Julia Bell Swan steamboat on river.
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DO NOT SELL: Illustration of Richard Trevithick, the of first locomotive. Illustrations of early locomotives & steam trains. Illustration of John Stevens.
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Est shots old textile mill; MS/CUs industrial textile looms spinning, gears spinning, yarn being fed. CU belt running through machine.
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DO NOT SELL: Illustration of early train.
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MS/CUs train gears & levers being depressed, pulled.
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DO NOT SELL: Color illustrations of American locomotive Tom Thumb inaugurating Baltimore-Ohio line, being beaten by horse, 1830.
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MSs steam engine of antique locomotive, followed by various views of replica of very early steam train (South Carolina Canal & Railroad Company); MCU man in top hat fussing with safety valve; CUs gray smoke & white steam.
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DO NOT SELL: Illustrations & paintings of early steam trains. Still of man sitting in rail car of the Baltimore-Ohio line.
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CUs old boiler pressure gauge; CU hot coals burning; CU colorful red wheel of train on track; MS thick black steam pouring from chimney; CU man brushing coal dust from hat; MSs two men in top hats being jostled in railcar. MS horses pulling covered wagon. TLS/MSs donkeys pulling boat along canal. View of snowy woods from train. CU bead of water on glass window of train, zoom out. Great TLS of old one room chapel (church) in winter, small cemetery in FG, snow dusting everything. H/a MSs pistons moving, wheel of old train moving; MCU steam escaping through gap in valve.
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DO NOT SELL: Color map of Eastern United States, arrows directed westward, indicating Manifest Destiny, Westward Migration.
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Panning LS misty mountains. Scenic LS riverwater rushing over jagged rocks. GV landscape.
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DO NOT SELL: Illustration.
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LS old stone arch bridge (aqueduct). TLS old railroad bridge. Panning CU sign for Baltimore-Ohio railline.
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DO NOT SELL: Map of the eastern United States.
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LS old steam train rolling along tracks, hidden behind green trees, wafts of steam smoke rising above treetops to suggest its presence.
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DO NOT SELL: Anti-railroad posters from late 1800s.
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More shots of antique steam engine with cow catcher speeding along rails. MS wooden railroad ties w/ iron straps; CU iron t-rail. Excellent MCU old steam whistle blowing on train; CU bell ringing; CU light; MCU cow catcher. Subjective POV and traveling shots of train moving through snowy countryside. MS billowing smoke from train. MS wheels of train passing, large barn covered in snow in BG.
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DO NOT SELL: Archival stills of railroad managers and laborers posing fro cam, late 1800s.
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WLS/LSs steam train chugging through scenic wintry countryside. Great MCU steam seeping form chimney of train, pan right to sun obscurred by smoke.
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DO NOT SELL: End Credits.