A Century Of Progress - In Locomotion (1925)

No title - paperwork reads - 1825 - 1925. A century of progress in Locomotion. Look back a 100 years and see the first railway engine used on the Stockton-Darlington - the first railway line in the world. Darlington, Durham. M/S of the old engine, a man sits on it and rings a bell. The engine is small with two shafts in the middle and a huge funnel on the front. M/S of the shafts moving up and down. (Note: the title is shown here). Intertitle - ’Compare . latest Express Pacific type 150 ton engine capable of 78 miles per hour!’ M/S of the two engines side by side driving up the track, the new sleek engine dwarfs the old one. M/S of the two together, they have stopped and the two drivers are talking to each other. M/S of the front of both the engines. M/S as the camera pans up the big funnel on the front of the old engine, then pans up the round nose of the new one. L/S of the two of them together showing the difference in size and shape. M/S various shots as the driver of the old eng
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