GG1787 ” Brake Free ” 1970 Classroom Film on Children’s Imagination Ft Mount Washington Cog Railway

“Brake Free”, Eastman Color, Red Fade, Missing Title?,

“Railways that climb mountains are a very special breed — with a rack? set between the rails for the engine to get a grip on. The Mount Washington Cog Railway, in New Hampshire, was the first one in the world, and one of the very few which have never given up steam”,

“The third in a series of films that Kit Davidson made on railways (the others are ‘Third Avenue El’ and ‘Railway with a heart of Gold’), this film is staged on the Mount Washington (NH) cog railway”

“This film is designed to encourage imagination and story telling by children. A small boy imagines himself as a railwayman, a train and a driver of the old cog railway that climbs Mt Washington. No narration or dialogue – only sound effects and a musical score.”

“The cogwheel railway up Mount WAshington in the White Mountains of New Hampshire is the setting for a story about a boy’s active imagination. He comes with his mother, on a beautiful fall day, to the foot of the railway. While she is absorbed in reading, he goes over to inspect the workers who are tending the switches, track, and engine of the odd railway which climbs a mountain”

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