Arrival of the Train

And since it's an off day, I figure I should add some of my train videos now. I thought I would have more time to fit them in, but we are already at the half-way point and I only posted the Johnny Cash video (although if I could only post one, that would be it.)

But, there's more. One of the oldest "movies" ever made was about a train arriving at the station by the Lumiere Brothers in 1895. In fact, I believe when I was in college, I was taught it was the very first movie and inspired a panic when first shown:  "The spectators ran out of the hall in terror because the locomotive headed right for them. They feared it could plunge off the screen and onto them." (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/171125#FOOT3) In the years since I have been in college, it appears this myth has been debunked. However, it wouldn't hurt to take a moment to look at the cause of the excitement over the last century.

Quo Vadimus