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Take a cool ride set to music by Duke Ellington.

Experimental, 1957   Length: 6 minutes   Director: D.A. Pennebaker   Distribution:   Frazer Pennebaker   262 West 91st Street   NY, NY 10024   212-496-9195 Premiere: Friday, July 9, 1999, 10pm, on Thirteen/WNET. (Repeat: Sunday, July 11, 1999, 12 midnight.)

All aboard the Daybreak Express! Take a cool ride set to music by Duke Ellington. It starts slowly -- an orange glow spreads across the night sky behind skyscrapers as people, in silhouette, wait at a train station -- then picks up the pace to the sound of whistles blowing and horns wailing. This film celebrates the sensations of an elevated subway ride, capitalizing on the angle and architecture of New York City for its stunning visual imagery. The city is presented from many points of view, and those views are fantastic: through the windows of the speeding train; looking upward at tall buildings or the supporting beams of a bridge; out the front window of the train as if through the eyes of the engineer. Edits get quicker as the train picks up speed, until the city literally whizzes past. The music builds and the images become kaleidoscopic. Suddenly, there's a red stop light ahead -- Grand Central Station.
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