Vienna 1900: Pictures of a Metropolis/ Vienna Tramway Ride (excerpt)

Excerpt from Vienna Tramway Ride
(Original title: Eine Fahrt durch Wien)
1906, 4 minutes

From the DVD Vienna 1900: Pictures of a Metropolis

Shot by the local bureau of the Pathé company (France), Vienna Tramway Ride points towards cinema's origins in fairgrounds and variety theatres. The camera is mounted on a tramway, thus offering the viewers a first person point-of-view of bustling street life. These so-called Phantom Rides were a popular genre of the first two decades of cinema, and their traces can still be found in contemporary IMAX and 3-D amusement rides. For today's viewers the lack of visible traffic regulations and the variety of fashion on display in the streets is striking.

Piano Accompaniment: Elaine Brennan
www.elainebrennanpiano.com

DVD available from the Austrian Film Museum, Vienna
www.filmmuseum.at

and from the Neue Galerie, New York
www.neuegalerie.org

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Elaine
• Brennan
• Piano
• Accompaniment
• Wien
• Vienna
• Film
• Austrian
• Filmmuseum
• Tram
• Tramway
• Metropolis

[EUImperator]

Jetzt wissen wir, alles wovon Wien heute noch zerrt, stammt von damals. Seit 1938 wird wohl keine echte Innovation mehr staatgefunden haben. Damals war die Intelligenz in Wien. Heute sind die alle tod oder vertrieben.

[greenapple963]

Fantasztikus! :)

[ElachimArtist]

Wow, so viel hat sich gar nicht verändert^^