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Crush Collision

Artist: Chris Larson
Production year: 2006
Duration: 00:12:48
Catalogued as: NARRATIVE/FICTION, FANTASY/VISIONARY, GENDER/SEXUALITY

Galleries:
Magnus Müller

The title of the film is based on the song The Great Crush Collision composed by ragtime musician Scott Joptin who recurs himself to a real historic event from 1896 which he attended: "On Sept. 15, 1896, 50,000 people had gathered anxiously on a wide stretch of Texas prairie near Warn.

Moments later, they watched two 32-ton locomotives, each pulling seven boxcars, collide head on at a combined speed of 120 miles per hour." The public had gathered in Crush, a small town in Texas, which w ...

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