Safari by Steam Train — Colonial Kenya, 1935

8-second 1930s travelogue homage, 16:9. Kenya, 1935: a safari steam train crosses the savanna — open observation car, pith helmets, elephants at the waterhole.

0-3s: The train steams across the plains — black engine, brass gleaming, the open observation car at the rear crowded with pith helmets and raised cameras. The savanna rolls past: acacias, red dust, the sky enormous. Ahead, elephants cross at the waterhole — the herd moving slow and gray through the shallows, calves tucked inside. The train slows, brakes sighing; every camera swings to the elephants.

3-6s: The sightings. A leopard watches from a thorn tree, draped over a branch, tail hanging — the passengers' whispers, a lens glinting. In the dining car, lunch is served as the plains roll past the windows: white tablecloths, the silver trembling with the rails, the savanna unspooling beyond the glass. A waiter pours, unperturbed by the giraffe outside.

6-8s: The train steams on into the heat haze, the elephants' dust settling behind, the plains endless. Adventurous and problematic-glamorous: the classic safari.

Craft: the steam engine's black-and-brass detail, the observation car's open rail, the dining car's white cloths; the elephants' gray mass at the waterhole, the leopard's draped watch, the giraffe's passing. Camera: train-window safari framing, the great plains beyond, the dining car's glide, 40mm feel. Lighting: blazing equatorial sun, film grain, heat shimmer. Atmosphere: adventurous, the classic safari. Style: 1930s travelogue homage, warm nostalgic grade, photorealistic, 24fps.