English (en-US)

Title

The Steel Animal

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Klaassen receives a phone call, and he is happy with his transfer to head the railway line's controlling team. He accepts well his change of job, but when he meets his co-workers, uncultured and rough people, he starts having second thoughts. However, he takes it easy, recognizes that they're highly trained works, and teaches them a number of (flashback) stories of pioneers of the present steam train: the early invention by Denis Papin (1679); the three legendary land-surveyors of Caton Hill; the 1769 experiment by Nicolas-Joseph De Cugnot; the 1813 machine test of William Hedley; the 1829 developments by Robert Stephenson; and finally the grand opening of the first German steam railway line of Nürnberg-Fürth - stories in which man's will to conquer the machine was sometimes met with disaster.

1h 11m

German (de-DE)

Title

Das Stahltier

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Overview

Der Industriefilm wurde im Auftrag der Reichsbahn zum 100. Jahrestag (1935) der ersten deutschen Eisenbahn gedreht. – Klaassen erhält einen Anruf, und er ist glücklich mit seiner Überstellung an das Leitungsteam der Bahnlinie. Er akzeptiert seinen Jobwechsel gut, aber als er seine Mitarbeiter trifft, unkultivierte und raue Leute, fängt er an, sich Gedanken zu machen. Er erkennt, dass sie hochtrainierte Arbeiter sind, und lehrt ihnen Geschichten von Pionieren des gegenwärtigen Dampfzuges – Geschichten, in denen der Wille des Menschen, die Maschine zu erobern, bisweilen katastrophal war.

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