The bicycle fire department of a California town, the railroad switch-man who achieves amazing effects working with colored sand in bottles, the quaint sewing machine which dates from 1849 and is still serviceable, and other oddities..
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Is this worth watching? Honestly, only if you are the type of person who digs through archives just to see how a 19th-century sewing machine works. It is not really a "movie" in the traditional sense, more like a collection of clips that might have played before a feature like The Way of the West. If you are looking fo...
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Charles E. Ford
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"Is this worth watching? Honestly, only if you are the type of person who digs through archives just to see how a 19th-century sewing machine works. It is not really a "movie" in the traditional sense, more like a collection of clips that might have played before a feature like The Way of the West. If you are looking for a story, you will hate it. If you like odd human hobbies, you might actually enjoy the ten minutes it takes to watch. There is this segment about a railroad switch-man who makes..."
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