A train ride with a difference - at an equivalent speed of 960 m.p.h. Timelapse photography is used to record the Blue Pullman run from London to Birmingham to a musical background of Strauss’s “Perpetuum Mobile”. Time lapse sequences of the complicated track in front of the Pullman are photographed from the driver’s window and inter-cut with contrasting glimpses of the passengers taken at normal speed. Photography by Jack West. This film is an up-to-date version of an earlier film “London to Brighton in Four Minutes” (Title Code 006440) produced for television by the BBC.
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ACMI Identifier
322027
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Time lapse cinematography
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Railroad trains
Communications, Infrastructure, & Transport → Railroads - Pullman cars
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)