The Steel Animal
1935 · 71 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 76 VOTES · DIR. Willy Zielke
Overview
Klaassen receives a phone call, and he is happy with his transfer to head the railway line's controlling team. He accepts well his change of job, but when he meets his co-workers, uncultured and rough people, he starts having second thoughts. However, he takes it easy, recognizes that they're highly trained works, and teaches them a number of (flashback) stories of pioneers of the present steam train: the early invention by Denis Papin (1679); the three legendary land-surveyors of Caton Hill; the 1769 experiment by Nicolas-Joseph De Cugnot; the 1813 machine test of William Hedley; the 1829 developments by Robert Stephenson; and finally the grand opening of the first German steam railway line of Nürnberg-Fürth - stories in which man's will to conquer the machine was sometimes met with disaster.
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00:00:28 This german film is masterpiece of film art, a sensation of thought, of photography, of music
00:00:51 Banned in germany, praised in other countries, the Filmkunst GmbH Frankfurt found a filmprint in Paris
00:08:15 when there were no locomotives
00:10:39 STOP!
00:11:05 Unfortunately he escaped.
00:13:03 Be careful!
00:14:38 The peasant uprising of Carston Hill.
00:15:39 Are they behind the bush?
00:16:23 Why are you running away?
00:16:58 This strange machine just wouldn't work.
00:18:32 The flywheel is just fine Mr. Walters.
00:20:04 Mr. Walters! Let go, this is dangerous!
00:21:10 In german "Paffender Wilhelm"
00:23:13 ...happened to Fergerson...
00:23:37 The crowd was eagerly awaiting the arrival of the first train.
00:26:38 Miss Dickinson, my I show you my 'Rocket'? -Most certainly, it is his most preciaous thing.
00:29:00 Listen, what's there since 100 years of german train history?
00:32:35 I bring you his sincere congratulations.
00:33:03 of the city of Nürnberg.
00:35:07 A steel animal.
00:35:38 This is the lung.
00:35:56 These are just lamps.
00:41:14 Nevertheless he is accepted by the workers. In moments of rest he tells them episodes from the history of the train.
01:08:01 it puffed smoke