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From: "Ronald" rdukarm AT roadrunner DOT com
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:21:58 -0500
Subject: On the Lackawanna 95 Years Ago
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List,

The Lackawanna arranged a nice holiday treat for their employees and their families in 1916. They scheduled a Safety First meeting in Elmira and sent special trains on the Buffalo, Syracuse, Utica and Scranton Divisions to pick up attendees. The meeting featured a moving picture and music, along with a first aid demonstration plus Safety First addresses in English, Italian and Polish. It doesn't say who picked up lunch but the Lackawanna may have done that too. A nice outing for the family.

I looked up the movie on Google: The House That Jack Built is a 1900 British short silent drama film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a boy who knocks over a house made of bricks built by his sister and then rebuilds it when the original sequence is shown in reverse. "In addition to exploiting a popular cinematic trick," of, "reversing the film in the projector," and, "its audience's presumed knowledge of the technique," the director, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "was continuing his experiments with narrative forms," with the reversed sequence, "interpreted as wish-fulfilment on the part of the girl, hoping that time will literally turn back on itself to allow her house to be rebuilt," he, "demonstrates that while this is impossible in reality, it is easily achievable in cinema."


Ron Dukarm

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