Thrills for you. May, 1940
Description
One year after visitors to the 1939 New York World's Fair were introduced to polarized 3-D projection with Chrysler's promotional short, In Tune with Tomorrow, the Pennsylvania Railroad gave Polaroid 3-D its west coast premiere with this film at the Golden Gate International Exposition in San Francisco. Produced by the same team as the Chrysler film, but rather than featuring whimsical stop-motion animation, this one takes a documentary approach with careful composition in depth and dynamic point-of-view angles to impart the sensation of traveling on "the world's most modern railroad." Only the new polarized "magic moves" could be sufficiently modern to provide no less than five proud shots of the iconic streamlined, Raymond Loewy designed GG1 electric locomotive. Equally in depth are the muscular K4 engines under full steam.
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8 minutes
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Alexander Street
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