"Not only was this not released in the U.S., it was not even released in its native Germany! Willi Ziehlke, who had created the Greek prologue for Leni Riefenstahl's Olympic film, was thereafter signed by the Nazis to make a propaganda film extolling the history and virtues of the German railroad system. Few documentaries were so generously funded, and Ziehlke was able to build working models of early locomotives and recreate their trials and disasters on a grand scale. Unfortunately, the Nazis considered it Communistic (in the comradely conditions of the rail workers) and pro-British (for acknowledging the pioneer work of Stevenson's Rocket) and not at all pro-Nazi. They immediately banned it, and squelched its director's career by incarcerating him in an asylum. It's a lovely, lyrical work, quite transcending its obvious appeal to railroading buffs. Untitled, but it is almost wholly visual and very easy to follow. Ariberg Mog, the hero of Machaty's Extase, plays the German engineer who traces the history of railroads without sufficient Nazi zeal!" William K. Everson