{"id":1130,"date":"2011-09-18T18:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/09\/18\/this-shot-is-the-most-expensive-shot-in-silent-film-history\/"},"modified":"2011-09-18T18:09:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T22:09:00","slug":"this-shot-is-the-most-expensive-shot-in-silent-film-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/09\/18\/this-shot-is-the-most-expensive-shot-in-silent-film-history\/","title":{"rendered":"This shot is the most expensive shot in silent film history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-Sg78pvGEFTc\/TnZslEYnXhI\/AAAAAAAAAgw\/7S495-mCUOc\/s1600\/tumblr_lpj52jJwm11qiz3j8o1_500.gif\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/s1215.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc507\/danielmoose\/?action=view&amp;current=tumblr_lpj52jJwm11qiz3j8o1_500.gif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i1215.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc507\/danielmoose\/tumblr_lpj52jJwm11qiz3j8o1_500.gif\" alt=\"The General\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-family:georgia;font-size:100%\"><span><span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-size:85%\">The General (1926) &#8211; HU DVD 34<\/span><br \/>This shot is the most expensive shot in silent film  history. It was filmed in a single take, that had to be perfect, with a  real train and a \u2018dummy\u2019 engineer (notice the white arm hanging out the  conductors window). Some of the locals who came to watch the filming,  thought the dummy<\/span><span><span> was a real person and screamed in horror; <\/span><\/span><span>supposedly, <\/span><span>one person even fainted.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%\">As seen on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jaeger.im\/this-shot-is-the-most-expensive-shot-in-silent-film-history-it\/\">Jaeger Amzallag<\/a> blog and the <a href=\"http:\/\/blackandwtf.tumblr.com\/post\/10239659613\/1926-this-shot-from-the-movie-the-general-is-the\">Black and WTF<\/a> blog.<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span><span title=\"Link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/img\/blank.gif\" alt=\"Link\" class=\"gl_link\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/span>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General (1926) &#8211; HU DVD 34This shot is the most expensive shot in silent film history. It was filmed in a single take, that had to be perfect, with a real train and a \u2018dummy\u2019 engineer (notice the white arm hanging out the conductors window). Some of the locals who came to watch the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[133,311],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-screening","tag-film-studies","tag-silent-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}