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It's a gold mine for old excavating machines. There are so many good shots of various 1969 machines being used. A lot of shots of grunt workers doing dangerous tasks in very harsh conditions. It's amazing that we don't appreciate these workers more. These are some of the hardest jobs out there.
The narrator makes this documentary his own as those old narrators tended to do. They had more control over the product. Today these things are produced top-down and there is very little personality to these big documentaries.
The work the men do is very dangerous. At many times I felt nervous just watching them try to help the giant machine put giant blocks of cement into the tunnel wall. Many men must have been injured all the time in these conditions. And this shows how extremely hard it must have been to built the underground in 1863. The most impressive building project I have ever seen.
This is nothing spectacular though. It's just 1 rail line and we get no interviews so the men behind it all are not really heard. It's just a different style of documentary compared to the new more person focused documentaries about such projects. We also don't really know where we are. I'm not a Londoner so I was lost at times. Where is this line exactly?
This documentary feels like it belongs in a museum. You can't find these kind of machines anymore. It's worth a watch for sure. Just don't expect a modern human-focused documentary.
The narrator makes this documentary his own as those old narrators tended to do. They had more control over the product. Today these things are produced top-down and there is very little personality to these big documentaries.
The work the men do is very dangerous. At many times I felt nervous just watching them try to help the giant machine put giant blocks of cement into the tunnel wall. Many men must have been injured all the time in these conditions. And this shows how extremely hard it must have been to built the underground in 1863. The most impressive building project I have ever seen.
This is nothing spectacular though. It's just 1 rail line and we get no interviews so the men behind it all are not really heard. It's just a different style of documentary compared to the new more person focused documentaries about such projects. We also don't really know where we are. I'm not a Londoner so I was lost at times. Where is this line exactly?
This documentary feels like it belongs in a museum. You can't find these kind of machines anymore. It's worth a watch for sure. Just don't expect a modern human-focused documentary.
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