Feature Documentaries & Shorts

**CINEMA TRAIN SPECIAL EVENT**
Experience the true meaning of ‘moving pictures’! Join celebrity guests on a unique ride on board the world’s only “Cinema Train” – a spectacular ride on a rolling movie theater along Colorado’s stunningly dramatic Royal Gorge with catered reception, live music by the Mountain Minstrels of Colorado, and special on-board screening of the rare 1906 silent film “From Leadville to Aspen: A Hold-Up in the Rockies” with live piano accompaniment, together with the Award-Winning short film “Travelin’ Trains”. (see film descriptions below)
Fri, Sept. 5th, 3:30pm -6pm – Royal Gorge Route Railroad, Canon City

FROM LEADVILLE TO ASPEN:A HOLD-UP IN THE ROCKIES (1906)
Rare screening of the rare silent movie! From the point of view of the front end of a train, a group of robbers on a handcar attempt a daring train robbery and murder one of its crew. Shot documentary-style showing the countryside and small towns as the train travels through them, this was actually a genre of film at the time dubbed “Phantom Tourism” where locations were filmed from a moving vehicle. Look closely… the locations may not be what they seem! (with live piano accompaniment).
Running time: 8 min.
Black & white.

TRAVELIN’ TRAINS (1988)
This award-winning short film is the story of Sam Unterman, a young man in search of his father, a legendary blues musician known as "The Snowman," in depression-era Georgia, and the blues music that both united and separated him from his search. The truth to the railroad warning that "hobo legends ain't the same as book legends," becomes painfully clear to young Sam in his journey through the music of a generation living the blues. “Travelin’ Trains is like a William Faulkner paragraph: profound, sententious, dense, psychologically heavy..." says The Boston Phoenix, and the Village Voice states "Eric Mofford's ‘Travelin' Trains’ does wonders in a mere half-hour with a primal theme; the search for the father...the hobo camp scenes are Rembrandtesque on a shoestring. Mofford is clearly a filmmaker of considerable promise."
Running time: 28 min.
Rating: PG-13
Plus other surprise film screenings!!!