The Runaway Engine

This film is from the Eye Filmmuseum collection. Many films in this collection contain outdated information or offensive language/images. While this is problematic, we do not wish to erase these films from (film) history. As a film museum, we show films as much as possible in their original form. Director: unknown | Production Country: United States | Year: 1911 | Production Company: Kalem (United States) | FLM58392 | Film from the collection of EYE (Amsterdam) - https://www.eyefilm.nl/ A short romantic drama set in the world of the railways. The director of the railways forbids the marriage between his son and the daughter of a train driver. When the daughter saves her father from a runaway locomotive by operating a train herself and heroically jumping off the train at the last minute, everything turns out fine. Cast: Alice Joyce. This film is from the Jean Desmet Collection at Eye. Jean Desmet (1875-1956) was one of the leading cinema operators and film distributors in the Netherlands from 1907 – 1916. The Jean Desmet Collection at Eye has more than 900 films, and is included UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/collection/... Interested in licensing? For more information about this film and other items from our collection please contact sales@eyefilm.nl phone +31 (0)20 5891 426 mobile +31 (0)6 4118 9635 https://www.eyefilm.nl/en/film-sales