Train collapsing bridge silent cinema scene - GIF

[Jon]

Train collapsing bridge silent cinema scene. Billed as the most expensive scene in silent cinema history.




Previously:

Enormous megaphone from silent film era - photo
Train collides with car carrier and knocks off car - GIF
Train explosion and derailment - photo and videos
John Deere tractor vs. train - GIF
Train "goodbye scene" filming rig - GIF
Jet-powered trains - videos and photos
1895 Montparnasse train derailment - photo
Richard Feynman explains: What keeps a train on the track?
Pickwick nite coach modified into passenger train - photo

[Manitoba Man]

Silent but colour?

[Liquidhandwash]

It a Buster Keaton movie " The General" filmed in the 1920s but set in the civil war, was in black an white, someone has colourized to "improve" the movie.

[Frank S]

Here is the wiki about it
It may have been a flop in the critics and the box office of the time. Which was Keaton's fault for making a near to truth historical documentary long before anyone ever heard of such a thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_General_(1926_film)

[Liquidhandwash]

I collect old silent movies, and it is one of the best there is. It annoys me when a film it altered and rerelease as restored or new and improved. Just restore it and leave it alone. I bought a box set that all the movies had the be updated in the sixtys. All the slides with text had been removed and replaced with a god awful voice over, and the music and sound effects had been "Updated" They are a peice of history and should not be played around with apart to preseve them. The same thing is happening with old warner brother cartoons, scene are been removed (and histroy lost) because it migh offend or traumatize todays hyper fragile PC audience.

[Fluffle-Valve]

What a waste of a locomotive.

[Philip Davies]

An hilarious film. Keaton performed his own stunts, some extremely dangerous, for example wrestling with a sleeper, and pitching it off at the precise moment, whilst perched atop of the cow catcher

[nhengineer]

What a waste of a locomotive.

Agreed. To meet the minimum word requirement I will add .....waste of a perfectly good bridge too.