Espero que sepas ingles. La BFI esla internacional.
There are two wildly different versions of this film. According to Tag Gallagher (Ford's biographer) the BFI version is the inferior one. He did a review of it in Film International, watching both versions on two different monitors at the same time. Aside from changing some names (and the dedication), the BFI edition (which was put out by Fox) uses a second take for virtually every shot, and in each instance the second take is very nice but also a bit inferior, and almost always farther away (sometimes extreme long shot in BFI, full shot in US). In addition there is some exciting montage during an Indian attack which is omitted in the BFI version. Tag wasn't keen on either Lanchberry's score or MoMA's William Perry but recalled that David Shepard did a new score (using much of the original score) for a Japanese release of the US version.
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For years, the only available version of The Iron Horse was the British cut, which was considered by most critics and historians as the inferior version. According to historian Tag Gallagher, Ford shot two negatives simultaneously (a common practice in the day), one for domestic prints and one for foreign. Apart from changes in text of the intertitles (including, in one instance, the renaming of a character), the British cut features fewer moving camera shots during outdoor action scenes and changes the rhythm of Ford's editing. The original American cut, with its editing intact, was restored in 2007 and showcased at the 2007 Venice Film Festival. (A scheduled New York Film Festival showing was cancelled due to "logistical problems.") A new orchestral score was commissioned by Christopher Caliendo for this restoration, which presents the silent classic as it was meant to be seen for the first time in decades.
