The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then performs a 180 degree turn at its summit before swooping back down on a parallel track.
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Part 1 of the History of Australian Cinema series. Australian cinema from the very beginning, from the newsreels, ethnographic and actuality films,...
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A silent succession of black-and-white photographs of the city of Montreal.
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The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the...
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Wallace Carlson walks viewers through the production of an animated short at Bray Studios.
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This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production...
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An overview of the works of French film pioneers Louis and Auguste Lumière from 1895 to 1897.
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Early Balkan footage.
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Early Balkan footage.
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A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.
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A day in the life of a train station.
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A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.
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Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw after the rush hour.