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DetailsOriginal Format: 35mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Unknown Duration: 24 mins
Subject: RAILWAYS
Summary The epitome of the particularly British amalgam of railways, poetry and social document, this extraordinary short was produced by the GPO to show the overnight journey of a post train from London to Glasgow.
Description The epitome of the particularly British amalgam of railways, poetry and social document, this extraordinary short was produced by the GPO to show the overnight journey of a post train from London to Glasgow.
With a score by Benjamin Britten and rhythmic verse delivered by WH Auden, Watt and Wright's potentially prosaic project is transformed into one of the all-time classics of film, documentary or otherwise.
UK 1936 Dir Harry Watt-Basil Wright
24 mins (BFI catalogue entry)
