Shot on 8mm film in 1936, this vintage home movie captures a group of workers laboring on a railroad track in California. Men in hats and work clothes use tools to maintain the rails in a rural, sun-drenched landscape. The footage, viewed through a film gate, shows a bird flying overhead and a brief moment of motion blur as the camera moves past the scene. The grainy black-and-white image evokes a sense of early 20th-century Americana and industrial history.
