Commissioned to celebrate the centennial of the Nuremberg-Fürth line, this film by a great German photographer from the twenties, Willy Otto Zielke, was a work of the avant-garde that was banned by the Third Reich for its decadent aesthetics. Zielke was influenced by Surrealism, and the film's originality is to be found in its unusual narrative organization, a daring collage of abstractions, rhythms, and historical commentary, all supported by the music of Peter Kreuder. With accentuated angles, a rotating camera, superimpositions, eroticized details of machines, and a prologue edited and framed so as to place the railways in perspective with the industrial world, this is a film with echoes of Dziga Vertov-the commissioned propaganda film that becomes an aesthetic experience.