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Take a fond look back at Dixie steam railrading. From the Clinchfield to the C&O, from the Virginian to the N&W, you’ll explore pokey branch lines, obscure short lines, and a few main lines. Enjoy 143 pages of
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Mountaineer Oatmeal Raisin Cookies — “with rolled oats, honey and plenty of cinna- mon” —are served throughout the train as a late afternoon snack.
A New Railroad Film Discovery The National Film Preservation Foundation has released another in its on-going series of preserved (see this column for December 2011) movies from the silent film era. This one, titled Lost and Found: American Treas- ures from the New Zealand Film Archive, “celebrates the largest international collab- oration in decades to preserve and present American films discovered abroad.” The 198- minute DVD presents 13 films, ranging from one to 60 minutes in length, drawn from a large cache — 176 films — of nitrate prints that had been safeguarded in New Zealand and virtually unseen for years. None of the films have been presented on video before. “In fact,”
says NFPF Director Annette
Melville, “none of these films were even thought to exist just four years ago.”
Why R&R?: The anthology opens with an amazing six-minute railroad film, Lyman H. Howe’s Famous Ride on a Runaway Train (1921). In it, an ordinary train ride (you’ll be struck, though, by the changing variety of equipment and scenery, but, hey, this was in 1921) turns into a hair-raising downhill ad- venture that may, even today, have you “swaying in your seat” (this according to the author of the 56-page Film Notes that ac- company the DVD). It appears to have been a remake of similarly titled Howe films in 1908 and 1914, and represents sensation-in- ducing movies popular in early theaters, themselves adaptations of Howe’s earlier films offering cow-catcher perspectives. Howe had a reputation for this entertaining film genre. On the DVD the movie is re-unit- ed with the original soundtrack viewers would have heard over 90 years ago. Another reason the NFPF thought R&R readers would find this release interesting is the belief that the movie was filmed — in part at least — on the Switchback Gravity
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