A train builds itself in 3 minutes and somehow it's the most American thing ever.
A drawn-on-film train builds itself and takes a trip, set to the bluegrass standard Orange Blossom Special.
Practical Effects
Hand-drawn directly on film—every frame is physical labor.
Editing
Cuts sync to fiddle breaks like a fever dream music video.
Director
Steve Segal
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
'Orange Blossom Special' is the fiddle anthem of American rail romanticism, hijacked here for absurdist animation.
Steve Segal scratched and painted directly onto 16mm film stock—no cels, no computers, just pure analog madness in 1976.
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