It's close to being 130 years old. Even the iron of this train has rotted away. Nothing shown in this film exists anymore. People. Clothes. The train. The station. Nothing.
That grandma was old enough to have seen trains go from a industrial oddity to an entire transportation network. The thing she was boarding literally *did not exist* when she was young. When she was growing up, the fastest speed most humans expected to ever travel at was the speed of a galloping horse. And now she was about to ride something that goes 3+ times as fast.
Its so crazy to think that this was first ever moving picture film and now we are using phones what are size of a mirrors and we can watch this after over 150 years
Hate to be that person, but this is actually NOT the original. They filmed this short three seperate times. The original from 1896 is shorter, and doesn't feature people boarding and exiting. This is the remake from 1897 (which is ironically more well known/more widely seen), which they made longer to feature people exiting and boarding. Then, a third (and least known) version was filmed in 1934, in order to make the film stereoscopic 3D... this was something they WANTED to do in the first place, but couldn't figure out how to do in 1896 when they originally filmed it. It's also this third version where the story of people "screaming" comes from, since the train was literally popping out of the screen at them (but historians usually leave that out/straightup lie in history books on the subject). The actual original film has, unfortunately, not received the same level of care as this more widely known remake has.
I was made privy to this "motion picture" by my uncle Horatio. What a truly harrowing sight! It was as if a train was headed directly for me, but lo, it was not! What Wizardry!
i.d.g. it , why did a bunch of exclusively white folks wanna do a MV of a TW'nese Mando-pop song? Was this some kinda Summer Camp for learning Mandarin?
