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One video camera will be placed along a stretch of rail-road tracks in the Atlantic North east. The camera will be set to record all the activity which happens within a period of around two hours, or whatever is the standard length for a feature film in the year of filming.

The image of the railroad tracks will be displayed onscreen, cropped to something near the classic "Cinemascope" ration -- 2.55:1 . above the image we will display the train schedule pertinent to that day, hour, and train line. A ranking employee of the railroad company will present moment to moment commentary -- confined to a small, boxed "talking head" screen of his own -- on the likeliness of the trains exactly meeting the schedule, and whatever information he considers necessary to understand their success or failure to do so.

Further commentary - recorded in real time via live feeds - will be deployed by the following "talking heads" --

-A current Senator for the state where this stretch of railway is located
-An expert in the history of American transportation technology and its effects (social, political, and economic) on the American landscape
-A contemporary American artist who works primarily in a train based medium
-An expert on the rise of Fascism in the 1930s

The finished film, released exactly as recorded save for an added score (second option -- if feasible, the score may be recorded live, improvised by musicians given access to the same live feed), will be released to a select few theaters under the title "Who Will Make the Trains Run on Time?" The distribution, however, will be aimed primarily at business class airline flights of certain length, and any businessmen who, as they grow nearer and nearer to old age, pine for what they have come to consider an earlier, more idyllic way of life.