Hey! I rode on this one! It goes from Noadhibu to Choum in Mauritania, it takes about 12 hours. It carries iron ore from the iron mine to the sea, and it only has one passenger carriage.

But it seems this one has no passenger carriage, only two control corriages at the end.

Meatloaf, will always be hot, regardless of his carriage, at any given time.....like a footprint at Grauman's Chinese Theater hot....

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is a science fiction novel by Arthur C. Clarke which was developed concurrently with Stanley Kubrick's film version. The story is based in part on various short stories by Clarke, most notably "The Sentinel" (1951). Kubrick collaborated with Clarke, and together they first concurrently produced the novel version that was released after the film.

The HAL 9000 computer symbolizes the progress of technology. It represents many apprehensions about technology. First, HAL is an artificial intelligence – it can mimic all of the thought processes of the human brain with greater speed and reliability. Second, its inner workings are not completely understood – even by the people who created it. HAL is an extraordinarily potent technology that cannot be fully controlled. When HAL begins to deviate from the way in which it has been programmed, this is an illustration of the apprehension many people held that our own technological development will someday come back to haunt us in surprising and unanticipated ways.

Obviously one of my favorite movies.

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do
I'm half crazy all for the love of you
It won't be a stylish marriage
I can't afford a carriage
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two

Louis D. Giannetti’s Understanding Movies:

. . . A famous sequence from Potemkin shows three shots of stone lions, one asleep, a second aroused and on the verge of rising, and a third on its feet and ready to spring. Eisentein considered the sequence an embodiment of a metaphor: “The very stones roar.” . . .

4-14a-hhh, A portion of the Odessa Steps sequence from Potemkin. Directed by Sergei Eisenstein. Perhaps the most famous instance of editing virtuosity of the silent cinema, the celebrated Odessa Steps sequence is a brilliant illustration of Eiesentein’s theory of collision montage in practice. The director contrasted lights and darks, vertical lines, with horizontals, lengthy shots with brief ones, close-ups with long shots, static set-ups with traveling shots, and so on.



Netflix’s description of the whole movie:

Propaganda notwithstanding, director Sergei M. Eisenstein's masterwork remains a cinematic landmark, charting events that ultimately led to the Bolshevik Revolution. Fed up with the ship's officers' brutalities and with maggot-infested rations, the crew of the battleship Prince Potemkin revolts. The rebellion ignites an uprising by the citizens of Odessa, resulting in czarist troops' infamous, systematic slaughter of insurgents and bystanders.


Compare the baby carriage scene (beginning around 5:00) to what Brian De Palma did with a baby carriage in this clip:

...The Untouchables: Train Station Shoot-out (9:04)

http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=15817

>> Didn't know that dotdude, thanks.
Is this it it? (carriage sequence starts around 5:53):>>

Yes it is Firefly. I had only seen the sequence of photos in my film history textbook, Louis D. Giannetti's Understanding Movies (Second Edition). The author is discussing Eisenstein's theory of "collision of montage."

I've posted the clip now.

http://www.videosift.com/story.php?id=16012

Didn't know that dotdude, thanks.
Is this it it? (carriage sequence starts around 5:53):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTET6NupL1U

Pretty graphic for its time.

Brian De Palma took the baby carriage idea from the Odessa steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein's silent movie "Potemkin."

Hahaha. That is too funny. That chick in the carriage is quite the over-actress.

Full story from Reuters page on google video: "The crippling energy crisis, frequent electricity and hot water cuts, high unemployment and corruption in the former Soviet state of ... all » Georgia have caused misery to most of the country's 5.5 million people. But for some the crisis has become an odd incentive to break unusual records in endurance. Goderdzi Makharadze, a 28-year-old student, has been squatting in an empty railcar at Tbilisi rail station since he lost his place in a student's dormitory. To him it doesn't make much difference, the dormitory room is as dark and cold as his railway carriage. Unable to afford a hotel or hostel, he lives in an empty carriage at Tbilisi rail station. It is also his training ground and he climbs railway poles to increase his concentration and skill in heading a soccer ball. He has already found his way into the record books. In 1996, he broke a record by heading his ball non-stop for eight hours, twelve minutes and twenty-five seconds. His last record was breaking the 1987 distance juggling record set by Polish dribbler Janusz Kmiotek. Makharadze walked 30 kilometres and 300 metres from Georgia's old capital of Mtskheta to the Tbilisi soccer stadium in five hours and thirty-four minutes, amusing tourists and winning large applause from the home crowd."