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[Oil-Electric Locomotive Hauls First Load]
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1929Item number (ISN):188727Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:TWENTIETH CENTURY-FOX FILM CORPORATIONAccession:1977-0222Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1929Production company:Fox Movietone NewsDescription:The exhibition of the new oil-electric locomotive at a Montreal station, and its first run to Toronto from Montreal.~Film includes sequences of: the Canadian National locomotive #9000 on the track with cars behind it and the engineer at his post; C.S. Brooks, inventor of the engine, smiling and talking to the camera while standing beside an unidentified man, both are in from of the train; a tracking shot down the track passed other trains and cars, an observation tower, a crowd of amazed spectators, CN personnel, and a photographer crossing the track in front of the train to take a picture; a tracking shot illustrating the speed of the train racing down the track passed buildings, a tramway, a factory, trees, under train bridges, and passed tank cars; and the side of the train and underneath section of its oil reservoir. <42s>Language:Silent with English intertitlesOriginal number:274-ADetailed holdings information: -
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