Posted on 08/17/2020 6:59:02 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant
Restored film of an astonishing suspended train over some lively German towns in 1902, like something from H.G. Wells. Or is it a sophisticated modern animation? Hard to tell. What do you think?
Is this train like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Not old footage. Looks like a video game.
Yes, it’s fake. You cannot “upscale film”. The pixels just aren’t there.
No, real footage but computer-enhanced.
Definitely modern animation.
Only one town, Wuppertal.
The word “Schwebebahn” just means “suspension railroad”.
It’s a new technique used in “They Shall Not Grow Old.” The computer fills in the missing frames. Not perfect, but the results are amazing.
Wuppertal is where Sven Lau’s “Sharia Police” were operating.
The original monorail at Wuppertal. Learned about it in grade school 65 years ago (ulp!).
Nicely done. Thanks for posting.
Had to look that up....interesting. I learn something new here every day.
“16.05.2019 - German Islamist Sven Lau will leave prison early after serving two-thirds of his sentence for supporting a terrorist organization. Lau had recruited fighters for the Jamwa militia in Syria.
A German court on Thursday ordered the early release from jail of one of Germany’s most renowned Salafists. Sven Lau had been serving a sentence of 5 1/2 years for aiding terrorism.
Lau was convicted in July 2017 of supporting Jamwa, an Islamist militia taking part in the Syrian war. He was found guilty of sending money and equipment to the group and also persuading two Salafists living in Germany to join the group.
German authorities first detained Lau in 2015. The time he had spent in custody counted towards the sentence served.
Lau was born to a Catholic family in the northwestern city of Mönchengladbach. After leaving school, he became an apprentice industrial mechanic and, in 1999, was apparently converted to Islam by a Turkish colleague. He worked as a fireman until 2008. Later, he became an active Salafist preacher.
He gained international notoriety in 2014, when he founded an organization calling itself the “Sharia Police.” Members of the group patrolled streets in the western city of Wuppertal, in a bid to enforce sharia law, with regard to consumption of alcohol, gambling and listening to music, among followers of Islam.”
...the Wright brothers made the first controlled powered airplane flights at Kill Devil Hills, four miles (6 km) south of the town, on December 17, 1903...
So, no.
Some cultures built flying trains 100 years ago; other built huts from cow dung (and still do).
Perhaps that’s not quite what you mean. Film is actually infinite “pixels”. In great shape it is vastly superior to CGI.
Well, not pixels, but film has grains of light sensitive materials. And there are a finite number of grains in each frame. Especially in 1902 film. And since the film has been digitized, we are again talking pixels, so kind of full circle.
I’ve known of this suspended train for many years. I have never visited Wuppertal but the train was made at the turn of the 20th Century for two main reasons. First, the city had a river running through it that precluded broad boulevards or traditional public transportation. Second, they just wanted to “show off.” Steel girder construction was progressing by leaps and bounds. It wasn’t that long after the building of the Eiffel Tower, the giant Ferris Wheel in Vienna, or Crystal Palace in London. This suspended train brought similar publicity to this German city.
I think it is cool, although it is not much more useful now than the cable cars in San Francisco.
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