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A Steam Train Passes 1974

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 21 min

theme: short

director: David Haythornwaite

Score: 3 / 10

A Steam Train Passes, a 1974 Australian short film set in the 1940s, offers a beautifully nostalgic and imaginative exploration of legendary NSWGR C38 class locomotive 3801 and its place in Australian life.

Plot

The opening sequence is a 1943 black-and-white Cinesound newsreel Monarch of the Rails showing the locomotive being built. The film then changes to colour and shows the locomotive at the Enfield Locomotive Depot, then the home of the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum. The fireman lights the fire and the driver inspects the locomotive. When ready the locomotive is turned on the turntable.

Cast

person Chris O'Sullivan
person Harold Fowler

More details

director	David Haythornwaite
editor	Wayne LeClos
keywords	blayney railway station blayney station cinesound door-to-door enfield locomotive depot hawkesbury river railway bridge new south wales new south wales rail transport museum newsreel open picton-mittagong loop line picton – mittagong loop railway line pub sydney ten tunnels deviation train travel trainworks railway museum travelling salesman turntable vignette wed
musicBy	George Dreyfus
producer	Anthony Buckley
publisher	Film Australia
theme	documentary short transport