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Building a Railway Engine (c.1925)

  1. There is quite a long and sensible Education note in these pages but its existence is not shown in the Menu at right of pages

    2. #1 from filmart_dd – 8 months, 3 weeks ago.

  2. While there is a Curators Notes entry in the Menu, there is a different note found under the menu item "Video". It is there that the existence of thefurther Education note is disclosed.
    Thus, there is a double value in this clip: it gives information but also serves random intellectual curiosity -- bravo!

    3. #2 from filmart_dd – 8 months, 3 weeks ago.

  3. The caption to the still photo uses the rhetorical (and hackneyed) phrase "iron horse". Did this lead the curator in the Clip Description to suppose that the locomotive in this film was made of "iron"?

    4. #3 from filmart_dd – 8 months, 3 weeks ago.
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