A Railway Collision (1900)

Directed by

Walter R. Booth

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1 min

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is a short silent film from 1900 that shows a train crash. It was made as a sensationalist trick film.

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What happens

A Railway Collision (also known as A Railroad Wreck) is a 1900 British short silent drama film, directed by Walter R. Booth and produced by Robert W. Paul. It was one of a number of sensationalist "trick films" made at Paul's Animatograph Works, his studio in Muswell Hill in north London, and represents one of only a very small number of surviving films by Paul. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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