...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!

The Legend of John Henry

48 statements
8 feature instances
1 referencing feature instances

The Legend of John Henry	type	TVTItem
The Legend of John Henry	label	The Legend of John Henry
The Legend of John Henry	page	TheLegendOfJohnHenry
The Legend of John Henry	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })The Legend of John Henry is a 1974 animated short film (11 minutes) directed by Steven Weiss.It is one of many adaptations of the John Henry myth. John Henry is a steel-drivin' man, with a wife named Polly and a baby. As a child he pounded the rails with his hammer, and when he grew up he became a railroad worker. One day, the railroad John was working on came up to a mountain. The railroad bosses decide that the train must go through the mountain, and so John Henry and the rest of the crew go to work. When the bosses, unsatisfied with the pace, decide to employ a steam drill to drill through the mountain, John Henry takes it as a personal challenge, and decides to beat the machine.Other animated shorts based on John Henry include John Henry and the Inky-Poo and Disney's John Henry.
The Legend of John Henry	fetched	2021-05-07T05:40:29Z
The Legend of John Henry	parsed	2021-05-07T05:40:29Z
The Legend of John Henry	isPartOf	DBTropes
The Legend of John Henry / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Legend of John Henry / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: John Henry dies, with his hammer in his hand.
The Legend of John Henry / int_4e3d253b	featureApplicability	1.0
The Legend of John Henry / int_4e3d253b	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of John Henry	hasFeature	The Legend of John Henry / int_4e3d253b
The Legend of John Henry / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
The Legend of John Henry / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: Roberta Flack! Flack, then a queen of easy listening FM radio, narrates all the action (there is no dialogue), mostly in song.
The Legend of John Henry / int_52989fee	featureApplicability	1.0
The Legend of John Henry / int_52989fee	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of John Henry	hasFeature	The Legend of John Henry / int_52989fee
The Legend of John Henry / int_71748a39	type	Named by the Adaptation
The Legend of John Henry / int_71748a39	comment	Named by the Adaptation: Here, the steam drill is called the Inky-poo.
The Legend of John Henry / int_71748a39	featureApplicability	1.0
The Legend of John Henry / int_71748a39	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of John Henry	hasFeature	The Legend of John Henry / int_71748a39
The Legend of John Henry / int_a68421bb	type	Animated Adaptation
The Legend of John Henry / int_a68421bb	comment	Animated Adaptation: Of the John Henry legend.
The Legend of John Henry / int_a68421bb	featureApplicability	1.0
The Legend of John Henry / int_a68421bb	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of John Henry	hasFeature	The Legend of John Henry / int_a68421bb
The Legend of John Henry / int_af7d483f	type	Dreaming of Things to Come
The Legend of John Henry / int_af7d483f	comment	Dreaming of Things to Come: Polly dreams of John Henry lying dead on the railroad tracks. When he refuses her plea to leave the steam drill and come home, she leaves, knowing that he will die.
The Legend of John Henry / int_af7d483f	featureApplicability	1.0
The Legend of John Henry / int_af7d483f	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of John Henry	hasFeature	The Legend of John Henry / int_af7d483f
The Legend of John Henry / int_cb9afcd	type	The Ken Burns Effect
The Legend of John Henry / int_cb9afcd	comment	The Ken Burns Effect: Most of the cartoon is animated, but there are some scenes that use still drawings. Those drawings are always lived up by panning or zooming Ken Burns-style.
The Legend of John Henry / int_cb9afcd	featureApplicability	1.0
The Legend of John Henry / int_cb9afcd	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of John Henry	hasFeature	The Legend of John Henry / int_cb9afcd
The Legend of John Henry / int_d54c5d44	type	Man Versus Machine
The Legend of John Henry / int_d54c5d44	comment	Man Versus Machine: One of the iconic examples. John Henry takes on a steam drill, and wins the race by drilling through the mountain by himself, only to keel over and die immediately after winning.
The Legend of John Henry / int_d54c5d44	featureApplicability	1.0
The Legend of John Henry / int_d54c5d44	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of John Henry	hasFeature	The Legend of John Henry / int_d54c5d44
The Legend of John Henry / int_name	type	ItemName
The Legend of John Henry / int_name	comment
The Legend of John Henry / int_name	featureApplicability	1.0
The Legend of John Henry / int_name	featureConfidence	1.0
The Legend of John Henry	hasFeature	The Legend of John Henry / int_name
The Legend of John Henry / int_name	itemName	The Legend of John Henry

The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

hasFeature

African-American Media / int_b75c7be4

Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.