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Author Topic: Speeded-up railway films on BBC. Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 09-03-2013 03:55 PM                     These seem to have been a peculiarly British thing. I don't know why, but many of them have been made over the years. Recently, the BBC have presented three of them in a new way: web page I can't help wondering what Abel Gance would have made of it. There's nothing new, is there?  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 09-03-2013 04:27 PM                     When I was a teen the local library had a 16mm print of the 1953 version they would loan out. Nice to see the updates and see how little the landscape has changed. I wish it were the same on this side of the pond.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-04-2013 10:25 AM                        To reflect the actual speed of most of those trains, they should have slowed it down, Andy Warhol style, and charged you about £5 per frame for the privilege of watching it (£10 per frame if you don't book your viewing six weeks in advance, and £15 per frame if viewing before 9.30am)! That's my catty remark for the day used up...  |  IP: Logged Stephen Furley Film God Posts: 3059 From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England Registered: May 2002 posted 09-04-2013 10:35 AM                     Don't forget charging you an extra £100 if you stop the film a few frames before the end. I very seldom travel anywhere by train now, I'm still hoping to do New York - Chicago next year, but I did use Grand Central rather than National Express coach the last time I went up to Bradford in April. They seemed to be better than most.  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-05-2013 01:29 PM                        My mother did Grand Central between London and York when visiting me once a couple of years ago, and was pleasantly surprised: the train was old but comfortable, not overcrowded and more or less on time in both directions. As for trains in the US, I'd love to drive the whole length of Route 66 in one direction and then take the Southwest Chief train back again one day, but that would take a serious amount of both time and money.  |  IP: Logged Mark Hajducki Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 500 From: Edinburgh, UK Registered: May 2003 posted 09-05-2013 05:17 PM                     It would be nice if they gave the locations for those of us not familiar with the line. I have traveled the full line, but only to/from Gatwick. The Southern Railway trains on the route were tight in seat width compared with other operators.  |  IP: Logged Terry Lynn-Stevens Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1081 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Registered: Dec 2012 posted 09-05-2013 05:29 PM                     Tried to give the film a watch, it was too boring.  |  IP: Logged

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