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A Switchback Railway

1898 film by Robert W. Paul
Movie short_film Q4659926

Facts

11 properties
Instance of
short film
Director
Robert W. Paul[2]
Genre
silent film, short film, documentary film[3][4][5]
Publication date
1898[9]
Producer
Robert W. Paul[6]
Duration
+39[11]
Color
black-and-white[7]
Copyright status
public domain[12]
Country of origin
United Kingdom[8]
P14724
8773044[13]
Title
A Switchback Railway[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en A Switchback Railway en Switchback Railway fa ترن هوایی
🔖 Identifiers · 16
Cinémathèque québécoise work ID
45190
EIDR content ID
10.5240/7CF5-3920-A1E2-37EA-0AAE-K
ElFilm film ID
1149675
Freebase ID
/m/0gyt1rq
IMDb ID
tt1321485
Kinopoisk film ID
494251
LUMIERE film ID
197803
Letterboxd film ID
a-switchback-railway
OFDb film ID
196418
Plex media key
5d776a01fb0d55001f53750c
TMDB movie ID
183320
TheTVDB movie ID
67992
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Trakt.tv ID
movies/a-switchback-railway-1898
Trakt.tv film ID
115065
YouTube video ID
51Wcgb3bQ6U
ČSFD film ID
249280

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Genre 3
documentary film, silent film, short film
Color 1
black-and-white
Copyright status 1
public domain
Country of origin 1
United Kingdom
Director 1
Robert W. Paul
Instance of 1
short film
Producer 1
Robert W. Paul
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Summary

A Switchback Railway is a short film[1].

Related Entities

public domain United Kingdom

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  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Rémi sim · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → —
    Publication date → +1898-00-00T00:00:00Z
    Instance of → short film
    P14724 → 8773044
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14724: 8773044, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/301579806|A Switchback Railway (#301579806)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/8232|Garance it"
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