Railway and Arts: The Ghost Train (1926, El tren fantasma)

dissabte, 6 de juliol del 2013

The Ghost Train (1926, El tren fantasma)

El tren fantasma (1926, The Ghost Train) by Gabriel García Moreno tells the story of a young engineer chased by a gang of criminals who had sabotaged the railway and kidnapped the beautiful Helen, daughter of the chief of the station. The movie contains scenes of danger on trains without control. We can find in its scenario reminiscences of the American productions of that era. The film can be viewed online at the website of the film library of Mexico UNAM.

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Railway and Arts

Since its inception, the railroad has kept the interest of the artists. John C. Bourne represented in his prints and drawings the enormous engineering work of the first British lines and painters such as Gustave Caillebotte or Dario Regoyos captured in their canvas European landscape transformed by the new method of transportation. The novelists, from Tolstoy to Zola, from Dickens to Oller, used the railroad as a setting in their works. The poets, such as William Wordsworth and Melchor de Palau, glossed the changes that the railroad caused in lives and property. The cinema, from its first frames, took it as a stage and protagonist. The music has found in the rattle of the train the basis for their workers popular songs, the patterns of Winton Marsalis jazz and the basis for the symphonic works by Arthur Honegger. The illustration and poster have produced memorable works to promote certain routes. This tradition has not been broken, survives in graphic novels, movies, sculptures and railway themed poster and, more recently, in electronic art and video games. All that is the subject of this blog.