City CASE STUDY Moving lubricating tram broadcasting live video from the streets of Prague About the project Tatra T3 tram number 5572 isn’t used for transporting passengers. It’s a lubricating tram, ensuring that the rails Prague are properly oiled. It passes through the 1,000-year- old city every day, and each month, this unique vehicle travels 6,000 km (over 3,700 miles). Its journeys through the historical city gave rise to an idea that seemed peculiar at first – to install an IP camera on the deck and start live streaming. The project was to become a part of so-called slow TV, a genre of ‘marathon’ television coverage. The idea was turned into a real project, and in 2015, Mazacka, as people started to familiarly call the tram, hit the streets with an Axis camera onboard. C

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