Of course in the 'good old days" if you wanted a train crash....
Quote:In the climactic moments of the film, one of the trains crashes through a burning bridge and plunges to the water below. This is not a miniature, but a real, working train. Now you understand why this is also Keaton's most expensive film!
And it's the film that Sight and Sound (British Film Institute) voted as the best film every made, over "Vertigo" and "The Godfather II."
http://www.bfi.org.uk/sightandsound/topten/userpoll/index.php
See what happens when you think big! They don't hand out awards like that for crashing model trains!!
The comic invention which many have strived for but so often fail is still in Keaton, Chaplin and the Marx Brothers.
Any other findings or documentary?
Interesting
From jerkwater, a branch-line train, so called because its small boiler had to be refilled often, requiring train crews to "jerk" or draw water from streams.
