![]() ![]() Aside from the pole and cable, viewers see only sky, occasional bits of architectural detail or trees rising above the street, and hazy images of intermittently passing birds.ĭirector Satyajit Ray’s Mahanagar (1963)-translated to The Big City in English-begins with a rather puzzling image, pairing an electric tram car’s trolley pole with a cable, but not the car itself (fig. ![]() For the first two minutes of Satyajit Ray’s Mahanagar (1963), the film’s titles overlay a shot of an electric tram car’s trolley pole moving along a cable extradiegetic music accompanies the sounds of its steady movement and the occasional friction of its passing through couplings and interchanges.
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