Das Stahltier (Willy Zielke, 1934)

[Fitzcarraldo]

Das Stahltier by Willy Zielke 1934

dvd (vhs source) to xvid, 560x416, 41 minutes, 349 mb, german with english subs.

unfortunately this is not the 70 minutes complete version;-( but it's still a must see.

Das.Stahltier.1934.Willy.Zielke.(Goettersturm.XviD).avi

Das.Stahltier.1934.Willy.Zielke.(Goettersturm.XviD).srt

imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0121767/

filmportal (german but plenty of pics): http://www.filmportal.de/df/65/Uebersic ... ,,,,,.html

imdb says:

Willy Zielke has made DAS STAHLTIER (the steel animal) for the 100th anniversary of the German railroad. Almost half of the film is missing now, but what has survived the editing is still sensational.

First the camera documents the construction of an engine, then the main character (Aribert Mog) tells some track-layers the story of steam and its taming.

Wonderful episodes with working replicas of the original machines are to see. My favorite is the one with Hedley's Puffing Billy: some mine workers load coal wagons (one sings very loud) and couple them together, Hedley climbs onto the machine and finally the train leaves, but soon the brakeman has difficulties to stop it, because a cow is on the track ...

The last episode depicts the cause of this film. It's the year 1835. At the station in Nuernberg are a lot of people to celebrate the opening of the first German railway. After the train (pulled by an engine called Adler) has left the film jumps back to the present (1935) and Aribert Mog interprets the new-built locomotive, a famous Bavarian S3/6, as a steel animal: it has scales (rivets), a heart (supply pump), eyes (lights) and so on.

Then it departs and very fast cuts give the impression of speed. There are very close shots of the driving mechanism and other parts of the engine, the tracks and the signals. Finally the brakes are to hear and the locomotive comes to a standstill.

The technical side of the film (the beautiful replicas) is admirable, the many character faces are wonderful (how Zielke's camera has captured the human emotions is unrivaled), the costumes are magnificent, there is humor and sadness, and, last but not least, the music by famous composer Peter Kreuder creates always a perfect mood.

DAS STAHLTIER is a great work of art. I give it the highest rating - not only because I'm a steam locomotive fan.

imdb trivia:

The expensive film, made for the 100th anniversary of the German railroad, was not shown in 1935! Reichspropagandaminister Goebbels didn't like it at all, because much of the time is devoted to English railway pioneers like William Hedley and George Stephenson. Finally the release came 20 years later.

[auess]

Another great one cant be missed!

THANKS OUR DEAR Fitz !

[NitteZtalker]

Well, i'm in. Downloading. Thanks, Fitz

[marlowe62]

He subido a Extratitles unos subs corregidos (en inglés, ya que no hay otros), partiendo los textos con más de 3 líneas y ajustando las líneas con más de 50 caracteres.

http://titles.box.sk/xsubt.subt.link.ph ... 111%5D.zip

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00:41:42,854 --> 00:41:45,854
The rest of this rip will be black
for technical reasons.

Ojo. Al final hay 30 minutos sin audio ni video, pero si se corta antes del minuto 42, se mutilan los últimos textos de los subtítulos, donde se explica el contenido del metraje que falta.

Saludos.

[Fitzcarraldo]

unfortunately this is not the 70 minutes complete version;-( but it's still a must see.

[Bemol]

Subtítulos traducidos en extratitle

Das Stahltier (esp)

[by_MaRio]

Agradecido

[Nueve Maletas]

Acabo de ver este documental y verdaderamente me parece una maravilla. Tiene una factura muy parecida al mejor cine soviético de vanguardia de los años veinte, con sus planos cortos, ángulos de cámara insólitos, imágenes abstractas, etc. La recreación histórica es increible, la fotografia genial. Algunos planos parecen auténticos daguerrotipos en movimiento.

La película se conserva incompleta aunque lo que se puede visionar -unos cuarenta minutos- me parece de una gran audacia: realizar un documental sobre el centenario del tren en Alemania mostrando pioneros ingleses y además mostrando los sonoros fracasos que culminan en accidentes de máquinas es de una gran audacia.

Sin duda se trata de uno de los mejores documentales que he visto nunca. Os lo recomiendo.

Aqui van algunas capturas de imagen. La lástima es que la calidad de la copia que se conserva no es muy buena.