The 1898 blockbuster that made audiences scream at a tunnel. No, really.
A hand-colored ride along the Bangor-Conwy-Colwyn Bay railroad filmed from an express train from the London and North Western Railway; Stations, vistas and a tunnel under the Conwy Castle (misspelled in the title) in North Wales.
Cinematography
Pioneering phantom ride technique—cinema's first 'on-rails' shooter.
Production
Hand-tinted frame by frame. Someone painted 2,880 frames.
Direction
Dickson invented this genre literally months prior.
Director
William K.L. Dickson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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