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Such a frustrating disappointment

Good movie but grossly overrated

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Blistering performances.

With the simple mounting of a camera on a train for a minute or so, it would have given the audience a feeling of speed in a cinematic sense. While the results are relatively dull to us, there is a bit of anxiety produced as the train encounters various visuals along the way. Still, it isn't much of a film and probably was put in the memory banks for future use.

This short film runs for pretty much exactly one minute and we see the landscape from the top of the train as it keeps moving towards his destination. We see roofs, full houses and here and there it makes its way through under a bridge. It's really only one to watch for train lovers as the only sort of highlights is the constant blowing of steam and some interesting architecture at the side of the street here and there. Trains were a frequent motive, but often they at least had a couple people waving into the camera and their smiling faces made the film. This is not included here though. Rather boring and I can#t recommend it.

Panorama From Top of a Moving Train (1898) ** 1/2 (out of 4) aka Panorama pris d'un train en marche There's nothing overly special here but the camera is set on top of a train and for a minute we get to see various parts of the town, which it is traveling through. I've seen a lot of films like this and today they seem either strange or worthless but I guess at the time they were released people got a kick out of being able to see this stuff. There are a few bridges that the train travels under and I guess you would call these the best moments of the film. If you're looking for any of that magic from Melies then you'd be best to start somewhere else. This is historically interesting but that's about all.