From Satyajit Ray's film, Pather Panchali--The Little Path. The scene here takes place just before the moment when "little Apu and his sister Durga watch with fascination as the first railway train they have seen passes by." Ray made the film in 1955--but it feels as if it were set in an earlier time. (His own childhood?) "In Apu’s youthful mind...the train evokes wonder and amazement, the vaguely humanistic dreams of an indistinctly imagined future of immense possibilities and boundless distances."
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