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.
Definitely modern animation.
Only one town, Wuppertal.
The word “Schwebebahn” just means “suspension railroad”.
Nicely done. Thanks for posting.
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.
Probably an animation but should be pretty easy to spit the flaws because 1902 computer graphics were not near as powerful as today’s graphics. /s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaDDd4Rixi4
Looks like "Steampunk" imagenings but is the real thing!
The train is a unique design that was implemented in several German cities around 1900.
I cannot see anything in the entire video that looks fake - although the precision of motion is quite remarkable.
Anyway, whenever you see as much steel in one place as we see in that film, there is only one word that shouts out in your mind - Germany!
The city being filmed is Wuppertal, which was one of the first industrial cities in the world.
As to film quality...
Please remember that Germany and Switzerland led the world in camera and lens technology, probably right up to World War 2.
Looks like an expensive project. I wonder if it ever paid for itself.