A Switchback Railway at FMovies. The Switchback Railway was the forerunner of the roller coaster. Passengers sit in a small car which trundles up a swooping railway track then performs a 180 degree turn at its summit before swooping back down on a parallel track.
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The opening of the Kiel Canal in Germany by Kaiser Wilhelm II on 20 June 1895.
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A day in the life of a train station.
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A group of Macedonian women are shown hard at work.
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Time Stood Still is a 1956 Warner Brothers Scope Gem travelogue, filmed the previous year in Dinkelsbühl, and presented in the wide-screen...
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Ballroom dancers Veloz and Yolanda perform the various dance fads of the first half of the twentieth century.
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A film about the expansion of the Central Line beyond Stratford.
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A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China....
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A group of military men uses explosives to de-root trees.
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Various street scenes from Copenhagen in 1907.
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A hunter and his native helpers set up a trap, then taunt and shoot a panther. Next we see the locals skin the animal.
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On 4 September Frederick Albert Cook (1865-1940) arrived in Copenhagen on the ship 'Hans Egede'. He received a hero's welcome as the first man to set...