The Diesels Roar on the Pennsy (Film Transfer)
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- Опубліковано 30 гру 2017
- Hi Def film transfer of 16mm film. Filmed by Fred McLeod between 1952 and 1960s. Blackhawk Films production from 1972. Most film transfers are abysmal and of low quality. This film was a rescue. Our transfers generate weigh in at 1.1GB per minute. The final ProRes footage is 13.2GB but web play dictates it be mastered to h264, a 1.3GB file. (a 90% reduction in data.) UA-cam initially defaults to 480 low res playback. Select 1080 HD for optimum viewing.
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This is a pretty rare bird among old railroad films: Diesels and sound too!
As a youth, I was privileged to ride on the Spirit of St. Louis, the General, the Liberty Limited, and others. My dad was a solicitor for the Pennsylvania Railroad. Those were good times. I remember dining cars with linen table cloths and real silver, hash brown potatoes for breakfast, stationery with the train's logo in the observation car. I even saw barbers giving haircuts. We took the Broadway Limited from Harrisburg to Chicago when I was six.
Just love the music. It adds so much to the majesty of a railroad video.
Aero train - busses pulled by a glorified switcher
Oh my gosh, Blackhawk Films! When we were kids we used to watch old Laurel and Hardy silent movies on an 16mm projector my dad splurged on in the late 60's,: that was the film label!
PennCentral was in my back yard. Our class road it from Richmond,Ind. to Indianapolis. Miss those old steamers,, they shook the ground
I see a lot of PRR trainphone rigging. I grew up in the heart of Pennsy power, next to an electrified section, so I rarely saw other railroads' locomotives. Trainphone use was probably already being superceded, but I have never spotted inductive antennas, even left in place, on other railroads' locomotives.
People love steam but those diesals look mighty fine. Out BH
I rode the Juniata, the Admiral, the Spirit of St. Louis/Cincinnati Limited, the Duquesne, and others in the mid-to-late 1960's.
My beloved Pennsylvania
Didn't know they had refrigerated truck trailers in the 60's, thought they came around in the 70's.
Back when the Pennsylvania was king
Fred Macleod owned an Auricon 16mm movie camera that recorded sound w/the video. Very expensive camera that few fans could afford. So the sounds should be authentic for these scenes.
I bought a 16mm sound copy from Blackhawk in 1976, but years later, when it was released on video, much of the footage had been filmed in color.
I can’t believe that many People rode on trains at one time!
There is something special about passenger trains with freight cars on the head end.
I need a Hofbraü sized mug of good German bier, some Weiss wurst, rot kohl, and good German hard rolls to watch this with that music playing!
love those old films
Golden!
Loved it !