Posted by Allan in Parody, Videos on December 13, 2010 10:41 am
Sometime last year when we were working on the Pomona Library’s “California Of The Past” Digital Storytelling Project, one of the stories we featured was that of “The Great Christmas Train Wreck of 1899” as narrated by J. Carson Bowen. The narration was taken from an expansive set of reel-to-reel tapes of oral histories recorded in the 1960′s. The images were mostly photos we have in our Special Collections room except for a small bit of CG animation I created in Blender.
Because of the computer-generated bit, I affectionately started calling the film “The Traininator” and created a mock-trailer for the blockbuster movie about this runaway train barreling through the quiet town of Pomona, California. Then the movie “Unstoppable” comes out this year while “The Traininator” languishes in obscurity.
This is the would-be trailer for The Greatest. Christmas Train Wreck Movie. Ever.