Take the 5:10 to Dreamland (1976)

Directed by

Bruce Conner

Genre

documentary

Country

United States

Runtime

6 min

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 17 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film strings together old educational and industrial footage from the mid 20th century. It creates a dreamy and disjointed visual poem without a traditional story.

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What happens

Take the 5:10 to Dreamland is a 1976 short experimental film by Bruce Conner, using the technique of found footage. It is composed out of found images from the 1940s–1950s from different sources such as educational hm and soundtrack. It is closely related to Valse Triste, another found footage short by Bruce Conner. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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