Red Rocket

In 1929, there were speakeasies, Charleston dancers, gangsters and jazz. It was the year the stock market crashed and a group of men sat down to design the streetcar of the future. They were ten feet high, forty-six feet long and weighed twenty tons. The manufacturer called them streamliners, the public called them “Red Rockets.” The film captures the spirit and grace of the now-famous streetcars which have fired the imagination of rail buffs and the public alike for three generations.