Interesting as always. (I had not known about the accident Dickens himself experienced!) There's a train killing in Gaskell's North and South also. And as a sort of postscript one could mention Kipling's "Mrs Bathurst", written 3 years after Victoria's death, and eerily showing a train and cinema causing a man's death (though not directly.)
I didn't know about the Kipling! Good suggestion, I'll have to check that out.
One cinema/train thing that I have enjoyed is the history of showing oncoming trains in film - there was this clip from Lumiere that people apparently found terrifying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FAj9fJQRZA
Perhaps ICE is a species of hate?
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Interesting as always. (I had not known about the accident Dickens himself experienced!) There's a train killing in Gaskell's North and South also. And as a sort of postscript one could mention Kipling's "Mrs Bathurst", written 3 years after Victoria's death, and eerily showing a train and cinema causing a man's death (though not directly.)
I didn't know about the Kipling! Good suggestion, I'll have to check that out.
One cinema/train thing that I have enjoyed is the history of showing oncoming trains in film - there was this clip from Lumiere that people apparently found terrifying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FAj9fJQRZA
That's in there, Bill! In the section on "The Mesmeric Allure of the Tracks."
Very interesting, and don't let us forget Ferdinand Lopez’s jumping under a train in Trollope's
The Prime Minister