A Switchback Railway
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"A Switchback Railway" is an 1898 British short black-and-white silent actuality film, directed by Robert W. Paul, featuring patrons riding on a switchback railway at a fairground. "This dynamically composed actuality," according to Micahael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "was clearly a success, so much so that James Williamson and the Riley Brothers released their own switchback railway films only a few months later." It is included on the BFI DVD R.W. Paul: The Collected Films 1895-1908.
- country: United Kingdom
- language: Silent film
- genre: Silent film
- released in (117 years ago)
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The Century Dictionary (1891)
The Century DictionaryAn Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney
Circular switchback railway, a switchback railway which is circular in plan: a form much employed at pleasure-resorts. II. n. 1. A railway for ascending or descending steep acclivities, in which a practicable 6117 grade is obtained by curving the ...
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