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A Railway Collision is a British film of genre Drama directed by Walter R. Booth
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Add to a movie listA Railway Collision (also known as A Railroad Wreck) is a 1900 British short silent drama film, directed by Walter R. Booth and produced by Robert W. Paul. The film depicts a stretch of single-track railway running through mountainous terrain on an embankment above a lake and a yacht. A goods train passes a signal, stops and begins reversing back up the track. A fast express train comes out of a tunnel in front of the goods train, on the same track. The two trains collide head-on and plunge down an embankment. It was one of a number of sensationalist "trick films" made at Paul's Animatograph Works, his studio in Muswell Hill in north London, and represents one of only a very small number of surviving films by Paul.
^ Paul, Robert W. (1967). "Kinematographic Experiences". In Fielding, Raymond. A Technological History of Motion Pictures and television. University of California Press. p. 46.
^ Christie, Ian (2005). Abel, Richard, ed. Encyclopedia of Early Cinema. Taylor & Francis. p. 510. ISBN 9780415234405.
^ Barnes, John (1997). The Beginnings of the Cinema in England, 1894–1901. University of Exeter Press. p. 12. ISBN 9780859895224.
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