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* NamedByTheAdaptation: Here, the stesteam drill is called the Inky-poo.
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* PyrrhicVictory: Certainly not worth it.
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* ManVsMachine: 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.
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* ManVsMachine: ManVersusMachine: 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.
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''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 ''WesternAnimation/JohnHenryAndTheInkyPoo'' and Disney's ''WesternAnimation/JohnHenry''.
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* AnimatedAdaptation: Of the John Henry legend.
* DownerEnding: John Henry dies, with his hammer in his hand.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: 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.
* TheKenBurnsEffect: 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.
* ManVsMachine: 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.
* {{Narrator}}: Music/RobertaFlack! Flack, then a queen of easy listening FM radio, narrates all the action (there is no dialogue), mostly in song.
* RepeatCut: Two repeated shots of John Henry keeling over in death after hammering his way through the mountain.
* StaggeredZoom: Three staggered shots into John Henry's face after the railroad boss says the railroad will have to go ''through'' the mountain.
* TemptingFate: John Henry says that rather than allow the steam drill to beat him, "I'll hammer myself to death." He does.
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 ''WesternAnimation/JohnHenryAndTheInkyPoo'' and Disney's ''WesternAnimation/JohnHenry''.
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!!Tropes:
* AnimatedAdaptation: Of the John Henry legend.
* DownerEnding: John Henry dies, with his hammer in his hand.
* DreamingOfThingsToCome: 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.
* TheKenBurnsEffect: 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.
* ManVsMachine: 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.
* {{Narrator}}: Music/RobertaFlack! Flack, then a queen of easy listening FM radio, narrates all the action (there is no dialogue), mostly in song.
* RepeatCut: Two repeated shots of John Henry keeling over in death after hammering his way through the mountain.
* StaggeredZoom: Three staggered shots into John Henry's face after the railroad boss says the railroad will have to go ''through'' the mountain.
* TemptingFate: John Henry says that rather than allow the steam drill to beat him, "I'll hammer myself to death." He does.
