Mode-Art Can 2973 (silent)

Description: Comedic sketch approach to documenting railroad track and right-of-way work; workers shown enacting staged howlers and laughing. Documents assembly and disassembly of rail lines.

Mode-Art production no. 4599

Notes on can: "#4599 Geo Hill"


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Subjects: Labor; Transportation; Safety; Oddities

Tags: railroads; trains; comedy; assembly; railroad tracks; bloopers; Union Railroad; railroad spikes; Clapperboard Cuties; clapper loaders; slates; close-ups; handlebar mustaches; railroad workers; hard hats

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Mode-Art Pictures, George Hill Company

Credits: We wish to thank Union Railroad for their cooperation in making this film possible.
The "Two Guys" from Verona were impersonated
Foreman: Bill Seibart
Klutz: Bob Trow
Camera: Lindquist
Produced by George Hill Company, Pittsburgh, Pa.
Writer-Director: Robert Trow


Distributor:

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Mode-Art Pictures

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1974-08-13

Release Date:

Geographical Location: USA; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania

Genre/Form: outtakes and trims, industrial

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: positive, original, reversal

Color: color

Color Process: Ektachrome Commercial

Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: plus circle

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 400