Jerry's train encounters a cow on the railroad tracks and can't get it to budge..
Walt Hoban
United States

A locomotive, resplendent in Victorian iron finery, cleaves the prairie dusk; its headlamp carves a cone of brassy light that momentarily turns dust motes into galaxies. Suddenly the cone halts—impaled on the horns of a cow, udder pendulous, eyes shining with the placid malice of a dream that refuses to wake. Thus Wa...


Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.

Walt Hoban

Reggie Morris
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" A locomotive, resplendent in Victorian iron finery, cleaves the prairie dusk; its headlamp carves a cone of brassy light that momentarily turns dust motes into galaxies. Suddenly the cone halts—impaled on the horns of a cow, udder pendulous, eyes shining with the placid malice of a dream that refuses to wake. Thus Walt Hoban’s The Wrong Track (1915) announces, in under twelve minutes, that the twentieth century will not be the uninterrupted victory parade promised by the patent office and the ..."

1920 · IMDb —
Reggie Morris

