The Flying Train (1902) | MoMA FILM VAULT SUMMER CAMP
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- "The Flying Train" depicts a ride on a suspended railway in Germany in 1902. The footage is almost as impressive as the feat of engineering it captures. For many years our curators believed our Mutoscope rolls were slightly shrunken 70mm film, but they were actually shot on Biograph’s proprietary 68mm stock. Formats like Biograph’s 68mm and Fox’s 70mm Grandeur are of particular interest to researchers visiting the Film Study Center because the large image area affords stunning visual clarity and quality, especially compared to the more standard 35mm or 16mm stocks.
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Watch this video to learn more about the remarkable technology that produced "The Flying Train" and other amazingly high definition 68mm films over 100 years ago.
*The IMAX of the 1890s | HOW TO SEE the First Movies* th-cam.com/video/BBNwiPgknn8/w-d-xo.html
How the hell they have this 120 years ago, but we can't have these in EVERY MAJOR CITY today? I want to ride a flying train!
You can, in Tokyo :)
I think engineering wise it created problems and safety considerations made the metro system we see today more feasible
It‘s a pain in the ass for residents, still today. My grandma lived right by the track on the 5th floor, it was LOUD.
It's actually not "that" advanced and for it's time it was quite the novelty. As for why we don't have them anywhere is because all it takes is one carriage falling off and crushing a pedestrian for the entire project to get scrapped.
Wuppertal is a long and narrow city in the valley of the Wupper river. It makes totally sense here to have something like this to transport people from the East to the West of the town. It's only one line that covers the whole city because of it's shape. If you would need trains in other directions it would probably be difficult to implement stations where you could change into another line. Basically the idea was a dead end when large cities decided they'd rather have subways instead, but here in Wuppertal it totally makes sense as it's mostly over the river and thus takes no space whatsoever.
This train is still in operation today. And: yes they had electricity then - and extensive public rail networks as well (unlike some developed countries even one hundred years later). Germany actually still does have an extensive network of public transportation including high-speed trains. This particular train was built over a river valley, hence its strange shape.
I thought it would been bombed during the wars.
So amazing to see this wondrous technology with the horse-drawn carriages underneath... and the chicken in the middle of the road!
I can't help notice how pristine everything looks - the buildings, the water, the sidewalks. It all looks so new...and probably was! Great film quality.
Pretty sure it was digitally enhanced. Back then they used 16 fps to save on expensive film since 16 fps is the lowest fps you can go without it looking bad. When these old movies are played on a modern 24 fps projector, that's why it looks to be sped up. To be this smooth, they had to digitally enhance it.
it is beautiful because it is not polluted with advertisements
You really need to see the colorized, speed-corrected, 4k version! th-cam.com/video/EQs5VxNPhzk/w-d-xo.html
I immediately thought the same thing.
This was shot in 68 mm Mutoscope at 30 fps. This produces an image quality that is comparable to IMAX - 8 to 16K in digital terminology.
TIP: As are many films of this age, this is sped up. To watch it more closely to correct time (so the people look like they're walking naturally and not power-walking), change the settings on the video to "0.5". Looks like a window into the past.
.5 speed looks perfectly correct, thanks for the tip. Much better even though now it looks like 10 frames per second!
Yeah, the kid on the swing really gives it away! The swing looks much more natural at a slower speed.
0.75 seems a bit better to me.
Thank you! Great tip, unbelievable difference!
it isn't exactly sped up..movies of the time was recorded with fewer pictures per second. Today the standard is 24 or 25 on reels.
People in 2020: 1902 is so far in the past, did they even have electricity yet?
1902:
I don't get it did they not say anything because they don't have electricity 😂
The electric motor was invented around the mid 1800’s
Yes, of course. The trains did, and still do, run on electricity.
@@LilyRudloff This things is running on electricity.
It should have said:
1902: Hold my glass
While the film format is extraordinary, I am touched by the subject matter, Germany had it all but lost so much because of a mad man
footage looks 4K to me, and the tech. is way more futuristic than anything we have today, so yeah, it's like "back to the future" without sarcasm!
This is the "Schwebebahn" in my Hometown Wuppertal.
I was wondering if it was Wuppertal. Danke. I'm surprised it's not stated in the description, above.
(For those unfamiliar with the city, Wuppertal is a long, narrow city, stretching a long distance along the Wupper River, making the "Schwebebahn" an ideal means of public transportation. "Wuppertal" means "Wupper Valley", with the "W" pronounced like an English "V". This "flying train" is still in use today.)
This is such a phantastic video. Great and thanks for the information.
what a nice place back in 1902
At that moment, the Schwebebahn system was just born and Wuppertal was not yet Wuppertal ! Wuppertal translates to "Wupper Valley", the Wupper is the name of the river under the transport system. This 15 km long transport system did link the small cities of Elberfeld, Barmen, Ronsdorf, Cronenberg and Vohwinkel and in 1929 they did merge to become the city of Wuppertal :-)
Another fact on the video : the initial loop for limited services in Zoologischer Garten can be seen. It has been dismantled in 1951 and the parts used as spare parts to fix more critical parts of the system.
Thanks! Great infos!
My husband grew up in this city and hoping on the Schwebebahn it's one of my favorite things to do everytime we are there. The cars are new but the track is still the same.
Fun fact: At that place during this time period, the German Felix Hoffmann synthesized Diamorphin for the first time and Bayer started to sell it under the brand name "Heroin"
The Schwebebahn became famous in 1950 when Tuffi the elephant was taken into one of the cars, got frightened and fell out of the train into the river.
Tuffi survived and died in 1989 of old age.
Thats the kind of facts I was looking for. Tuffi you Legend
Im glad I pressed Read More
Tuffi by name, Tuffi by nature...
True. And they named a milk brand after this elephant hero 🐘 🥛
And that's why there was a dairy company called Tuffi. Don't know if it still exists ...
This is basically IMAX but from 120 years ago.
Do they still have the flying train still functional ?
Man Germany was so far ahead before the wars.
For the correct speed, play this video at 0.5. This way everyone will be walking normally and not like they all need to pee really badly.
There is so much that happens in this video with so many different people that all i can really think is that this would be one hell of an opening tracking shot in a period piece movie.
Unbelievable how beautiful my hometown Wuppertal once was 🥺
I grew up in Flint, Michigan, USA. You might have heard about the water crisis there. It was a boom town in the 1960s. I have wonderful childhood memories. It breaks my heart to see how it’s fallen into hard times. Despite the hard times, people from Flint are tough, resilient, and generous.
That flying train in your town is magical. You were lucky to experience it. Seeing this film makes me dream about riding it after the pandemic is behind us.
No verifiably aged person from 1902 exists now.....
Location : Wuppertal, Germany Schwebebahn
This suspended railway opened in 1901
I was just going to say that - it is still running and was fun to go on.
I think they have just done a refit too.
Thanks. I'm surprised it's not mentioned in the description. And it still exists today!
Thanks! Should have been in the title I think. But what do I know..
Is it still open?
Crazy to think that nobody in this video had any idea that 120 years later everybody in the world could watch them going about their business. Probably most of them didn't even know what a film is.
Things were going so well in Germany... what happened?
Thank you for uploading this! I live just next to Wuppertal and it's a pleasure to take a look into its glorious past. 😍
But please mention that this video shows the Schwebebahn of Wuppertal.
I, who believed that the French had invented the aerotrain in the 1960s ... These Germans are incredible. Well done for the restoration work
Aero tunnels were around in the 1860s
th-cam.com/video/YBoFEa7U0QI/w-d-xo.html
So you would say the Germans were very smart people back then, possibly even advanced. Kinda makes you wonder...
Excellent...wonderful memories. I’m sure that chicken in the road wouldn’t survive today....it’s a very busy road! Thank you. Rob.
Just want to point out that Schwebebahn doesn't really translate to 'flying train' but to 'hover train' which makes it sound even cooler.
Doesn't the speed of the child on the swing indicate that the film is moving slightly too fast? Just asking; this is a wonderful thing to see!
Very especially interesting how much of the line was built suspended over a fine river. Thanks for posting this 💖 🇨🇦
Some great scenes of the Wuppertal elevated train from inside and out in Wim Wender's amazing Alice in the Cities (1974)
Wonderful seeing 70mm film from the 1900s, but the TH-cam compression get in the way... Make a blu-ray out of these films !
Just drove with the "Schwebebahn" here in Wuppertal only 10 minutes ago. Amazing to see the difference 118 years apart. Some of the buildings in this footage are still standing today.
For comparison, here it is today:
th-cam.com/video/DgfRq4kEFro/w-d-xo.html
Impressive safety record. That railway is still running and has had only one fatality in 120 years of service.
Not true. In 1999 five people died because standards and procedures along with proper documentation became more important than doing the actual work: someone forgot a block on the track which derailed the train. As this is Germany, things that are not to happen can't be, so when a caller dialed 110 to contact the police he was mocked and laughed at, as an accident was "impossible".
Also in 1950 an elephant got slightly hurt jumping out of a wagon.
Where is this?
Actually, three people died in 2015 when a car fell off the rails and plunged into the river.
I'm completely blown away. Thank you for leaving me in awe.
0:38 just some kids and their wheels lol
wtf did I just see?
Hello, I'm Ralph from Wuppertal, a very nice old film. I have never seen the Flying Train like this before. The whole thing looks futuristic and looks as strange as a theater backdrop with an incredible depth of field. Thank you very much for a look into the past.
Can anyone confirm that this is Wuppertal? Another film that features that suspension train system is ALICE IN THE CITIES!
It is
It is Wuppertal th-cam.com/video/F4KZLcvMQWg/w-d-xo.html
Sure looks like it. Plenty of pictures of the system on line, still operating.
It is Wuppertal.
Can confirm Wuppertal. You can ride the train even today as it's part of the City's public transport system.
I used to sing in the opera house there. Great memories, had a partner and a beautiful son.
How come it took 118 years for us to see this in such quality, literally every old video i saw in my life, even from 60s were all inredibely poor quality.
Film is amazing but it's more about how you develop and store it
The Edison Company's 35mm film systems (& the later 16mm & 8mm options) were cheaper to purchase, use, distribute & exhibit.
Large-format photography like this example has always offered stunning quality, but it has also always been very expensive - not only because of the amount of film & chemicals involved, but also due to the development & production costs of the precision equipment necessary to expose & process & display such big images.
The only reason we can still watch this much early cinema is because it became a tremendously popular medium quite quickly. The first few decades of the movies were all shot on highly unstable film, & we would have lost nearly every single one of those productions if it weren't for the large number of prints struck for interstate & international distribution.
If you ever need to feel some heartbreak... just look at wikipedia's lists of lost films.
It's called restoration.
literally anything shot on 35mm film will look sharper than 4k . 75mm dont even bother you would need 8 or 12k resolution to view it properly. Every old video you saw was probably a terrible analogue to digital transfer. People think newer is always better but its not.
@@betabasement741 Also, the original is 68mm, which captured a lot more detail than the usual 35mm (it says so in the description).
Wuppertaler Schwebebahn (Wuppertal Suspension Railway) in Wuppertal, Germany, built 1901.
I cant get enough of this film, so many details, beautiful. The two people moving a large wheel on the sidewalk, the swing, the chicken, people just hanging out at the riverside, nice. feels a bit like time traveling watching this. And like some others said, playing at 0.5 speed makes it a littlebit jumpy but puts it all in a realistic movement.
здорово! очень интересно ! Пересматривала несколько раз, тк. с первого раза не все детали можно уловить. Благодарю создателя этой пленки и предоставленную возможность увидеть это 🤗💐
this is amazing film. its so clean, clear and high contrast.
I couldn't believe the date! Was sure this had to have been computer generated.
Has a Jules Verne atmosphere about it.
Makes me think of Bioshock
You came here from Reddit, didn't you? :)
@@markslima1557 no, somebody in my chat on fb linked it. Very cool
Yes, Bioshock Infinite, my thoughts as I was watching exactly!
Mee too😆😆😆🖖
Or Dishonoured.
I would love to buy a full set of the surviving footage on Blu-Ray. Or to see the full set released online. I'd even become a donor; this is spellbinding.
Absolutely fantastic, thank you so much for this!!
Love watching historical videos like this, give you a glimpse in to the past. Thanks for the upload 👍
This is so incredible and agree with others we should have this all over. Places let money sway what's built not always what should be built. This would be great in places like India that have flooding when they rebuild transportation. Thanks MOMA please share more🎉❤
Set it to 0.5 speed to make movement look more 'normal'
The reason why old footage looks 'sped up' is because camera's back then captured footage at a much lower frame rate. if you slow it down it looks incredibly choppy. So the old footage playback speed is a matter of technological limit rather than preference.
GG!
0.5 is too slow, i think 0.75 works much better
Thx
People were rushing around like curfew was coming
steampunk was real; German steampunk at that.
More like electropunk.
Wunderbar! Ich bin schon ein wenig stolz, diese in der Regel immer nutzen zu können.
I like the way the trees and landscape alternate with the supporting structure (which is very elegant) in the first half of the film.
This is incredible - not shot in 2002 but in 1902!!!
Piękne, pomysłowe, niepowtarzalne...
very cool, I come from Germany and never knew. Futuristic! Europe would have been much better when we wouldn't have had both world wars. We've lost too much, it was never worth it!
wow, this is increadible
What are the kids at :36 rolling? Are they just moving carriage wheels or is it some kind of toy?
Rip-Tire beta version.
Here the Wikipedia link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn
Still the best way to get around town. Beautiful footage of a once rich and thriving city.
Still operating in Wuppertal, Germany. The most unique form of mass transport, I guess
WHAT?! Still?!
Viewing this at x0.75 speed actually seems more natural !
0.50 is even more natural.. based on people walking speed
i find 0.5 speed is most natural
This is the Schwebebahn. It schwebes bahns.
Impresionante!! Felicitaciones y gracias por compartirlo. (Me suscribo)
I like the restored and colorized version. So amazing.
It is Still a magical ride with the Wuppertaler Schwebebahn 🤗
very fine restaurated footage of the "Schwebebahn" in Wuppertal, Germany.
Remarkable how few people there are on the streets!! So strange to see that! And how few and far between some of the buildings are!
This is so cool, kind of looks like something out of Bioshock: Infinite
Footage like this makes me think we have regressed as a species, at least in aesthetics.
Its not that bad there ive been there
Take a look at the same route today and you will see you are absolutely right.
Wow. I totally thought this was fake. Glad to be proven wrong but sad that NYC's subway is so terrible that I'd welcome back something from 1902.
There is a colorized version of this same footage with image stabilization and at 60fps. th-cam.com/video/EQs5VxNPhzk/w-d-xo.html
Two modern TH-cam personalities have also reported on this:
th-cam.com/video/9IFh6wFTJiQ/w-d-xo.html (Tim Traveler)
th-cam.com/video/F4KZLcvMQWg/w-d-xo.html (Tom Scott)
I live in Wuppertal and i use it every day
what software did you use to upscale the old video?
It *is* amazing.
Please, PLEASE consider correcting the speed. Watching it at the .75 speed setting somewhat corrects the gait of walkers and the kid on the swing, but it would be so much better to play it at the speed it was recorded.
Thank you for working on this stuff, and posting it, and adding to our human heritage thereby.
.5 is the best speed.
For realistic speed, watch it at 0.75×.
Super Film, ich bin begeistert
Mostly eye feel as if we are catching up... not advancing as so believed.👁
But but but... no one is speaking...
"The comments and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker alone, and do not represent the views of The Museum of Modern Art, its personnel, or any artist."
At 0:39, there's a couple of kids rolling a... giant wagon wheel? ... up the street. They appear to be walking behind their parents. What the heck is that?
Quality is still better than CCTV cameras
I saw this on my fav Nemo Dreamscapes here but with music ..I'm glad it was real...we should revisit it in the states.
Settings > Playback speed > Custom > 0.65x
Look at this advanced technology? The flying train , but look at the architecture!
Very interesting, but watching the child on the swing @ 00:26 you can see, that it is very fast.
Too bad that wuppertal is not that beautiful anymore as it was. This must be a great time...
Indeed it became quite ugly these days compared to the beautiful past
most steampunk tech without actual steam
my hometown! Thanks for this view back!
Sharper than the latest android phones 👌
Wow ! Amazing engineering for 1902. Thank you for sharing ♥
Was dieses Video sehr schön zeigt und beweist, ist die Tatsache, dass die Architektur, also die Häuser die der Gründerzeit um 1900 zugeschrieben werden schon alle standen und teilweise auch schon alt aussehen. Einmal auf der linken Seite sieht man ein Haus mit Gerüst, welches nicht danach aussieht als ob es grad gebaut worden wäre, sondern eher saniert. Sowas ist doch erst nach Jahrzehnten nötig! Also eine erneute Lüge der nur sehr kurzen Vergangenheit. Alles war schon da. Tataria lässt grüßen 😉
A simply remarkable engineering feat for 1902.
"I've sold monorails to Brockway, Ogdenville, Wuppertal and North Haverbrook, and by gum, it put them on the map..."
I love that this train system, the Wuppertal Schwebebahn, still survives.
Very very nice 🥰
Ich bin heute morgen in Wuppertal (Vohwinkel) genau diese Strecke gefahren, allerdings mit dem Moped, echt toll zu sehen, wie war es damals und wie ist es heute. Aktuell fährt die Schwebebahn nicht, tolle Leistung der aktuellen Technik und dem dafür verantwortlichen Personal 😃 vor fast 118 Jahren bekam man das hin 🤗
Old houses than we see today were news. And beautiful.
That's why we need museums ! So amazing content !
looks like I'm watching from another timeline. 👀
This is Wuppertal. Love it