This stuff is ancient but I hope that it wasn't posted here before:The construction of the Japanese Shinkanzen high-speed rails, form 1964.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYjFOYLAtoEBoth the footage and the tempo if that of the '60s, so do NOT expect some twitch footage and on point editing. But, I think you all would appreciate it, or - at least - should see this!ps: use auto-subtitles. While at some point it it definitely an 'eh', it is better than nothing.
the original bullet trains were kino af
>>2024166the BGM is a weird mashup of mexican, italian, french, cold war nuclear education, and las vegas
>>2024166>Both the footage and the tempo if that of the '60s, so do NOT expect some twitch footage and on point editing.My brother in Christ that's exactly the reason why I prefer to watch old films.
>>2024166simply amazing
>>2024166fuck, that was great, thanks./r/ more old documentaries
>>2024166Wished that guy finished his translation. It should be there for the first 10 minutes or so.>>2030183Here's another good one from the same time period, with translations. About the life of Japanese steam train crews.https://youtube.com/watch?v=7esbkGHoWUs
Why do they only make documentaries about economically-sound train lines where everything went right? Shinkansen became much more interesting after the government starting building them for political purposes, bankrupted the JNR, and is now going through the same motions again in the form of JRTT which the government retained ownership of
>>2030237Wasn't there a whole viral meme video about a chinese railroad boondoggle in africa?
>>2033340if you're talking about "it's all so tiresome" that was a road building project iirc
i liek trains :]
>>2035616Based, me too :}
>>2035628same
>>2030183Choiner ok?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCQ8ehFs22w
>>2041099is that the Oceangate Titan?
>>2041099It's...a train.
>>2024166This one was shot on Film so there very few documentaries of that quality.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afu9clEUinQ Here without the annoying black bars at the bottom. There are however quite a few however about other stuff shot for TV.Here a list of interesting ones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MbeW3y78Fo - Ueno being renovated for the Shinaknsen. It wasn't until 1985 that trains actually stoped here and people going to Tohoku had to take a relay train to Omiya.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TDmP3jcoYpQ - This is the relay train that you then had to switch from. This still happens technically in Hokkaido when goign to Sapporo via Super Hokuto. But an actual Relay Kamome train is now in use in Saga when going form Hakkata to Nagasaki you switch to the new N700S there.https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u6_wPGikEpI - How the Dining Cars looked likein the 0 series.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfMSffQornk - 20th anniversary onewith interviews of the original people that built it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRVjCaDw-Ro - 30th anniversary onewith interviews of the original people that built it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMQYxhUMv7I - Here a 40th anniversary one with interviews of the original people that built it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-4508zsUNk - A documentary about the 500 series probably the best and most iconic shinaknsen in existence.
>>2041099You just know.
