Plot
A train is leaving a railway station at the outskirts of Jerusalem. From the very end of the train a barren, rocky landscape is seen, and some ruins of very old buildings,. Five men walk along the track, tipping their hats when the train departs. When it approaches the station building more people are seen, people of different ethnicity and religion. Some men wear fezzes on their heads and canes in their hands. A Franciscan monk comes walking in the middle of a mixed group of people. The platform outside the station is crowded with people waiting for the next train. Among them is a man with a sword at his side. The big windows of the station are covered with shutters. After the station the train passes a long fence, enclosing a lumberyard.
Cast
Non-applicable
Verdict
French made and pre 1900's this lasts but a minute (Literally) but is a fantastic little example of where cinema began.
It's just a 51 second recording off the back of a train as it pulls out of Jerusalem in 1897, sure all you're seeing is a bunch of people waving and smiling at the camera but that's all its purpose ever was.
The camerawork is static but the camera quality is better than you'd imagine, in fact films up to and including the 1930's were often not this crisp!
Quaint and endearing.
Breakdown + History put to film
Rants
What a different place Jerusalem was then, such innocence compared to today. No "Cleansing", no genocide, no hatred and intolerance just fascination with the advancement of technology before religion decided to put an end to that and instead put their efforts into mythology and intolerance.
A train is leaving a railway station at the outskirts of Jerusalem. From the very end of the train a barren, rocky landscape is seen, and some ruins of very old buildings,. Five men walk along the track, tipping their hats when the train departs. When it approaches the station building more people are seen, people of different ethnicity and religion. Some men wear fezzes on their heads and canes in their hands. A Franciscan monk comes walking in the middle of a mixed group of people. The platform outside the station is crowded with people waiting for the next train. Among them is a man with a sword at his side. The big windows of the station are covered with shutters. After the station the train passes a long fence, enclosing a lumberyard.
Cast
Non-applicable
Verdict
French made and pre 1900's this lasts but a minute (Literally) but is a fantastic little example of where cinema began.
It's just a 51 second recording off the back of a train as it pulls out of Jerusalem in 1897, sure all you're seeing is a bunch of people waving and smiling at the camera but that's all its purpose ever was.
The camerawork is static but the camera quality is better than you'd imagine, in fact films up to and including the 1930's were often not this crisp!
Quaint and endearing.
Breakdown + History put to film
- That's basically it
Rants
What a different place Jerusalem was then, such innocence compared to today. No "Cleansing", no genocide, no hatred and intolerance just fascination with the advancement of technology before religion decided to put an end to that and instead put their efforts into mythology and intolerance.