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Night Mail
GPO Film Unit Prod. & Dir. Harry Watt & Basil Wright; Written by W.H. Auden. Narrated by John Grierson & Stuart Legg. Music by Benjamin Britten. Engine: Parallel-boilered Royal Scot No. 6115 Scots Guardsman on a London, Midland & Scottish Railway (L.M.S.) Anglo-Scottish mail train.
09:01:54 Office & train dispatcher on telephone. Aerial over trains & tracks. Ext. of station & int. w/ man at switches, CUs. View of passing train.
09:03:44 Workmen on track, whistle & men off tracks. Runby, men drink, smoke & back to work. Aerials & start of poetry narration. CU of wires. Man on phone. Passenger train into station, man “How long do we wait here?” Aerial over postal train.
09:05:21 Farmer leading horse past sheds; man looks at pocket watch by haystack. POV from train of village. Runby & man picks up newspaper thrown from train. Postmen w/ bags over shoulders; attach to post for automatic pick-up; runby & pickup in net.
09:07:46 Workers pull carts in station, load bags from other trains & up elevators. Control room & talk about holding postal. Mail carts moved. POV along tracks from front of train. Into station & unloading mail bags; loading new. Workers off train; new crew leaves coffee shop & boards. Engines exchanged. Mail sorters prepare to begin. CU new engine coupled.
09:11:40 Man checking wheels, train arriving, sign: Holyhead; mail transferred to Royal Mail postal train. Whistle signal blown, train leaving station from on train & platform view. Steam as it speeds out, view past industry, warehouses, mines. POV on track. Runbys.
09:14:23 Men sorting mail inside cars, emptying mailbags & sorting letter bundles; sorting letters. Bagging bundles of sorted letters. Supervisor.
09:16:24 Preparing bag for automatic dispatch. CU pouring tea at stove. Attaching bag for drop & into net for pickup. New bags picked up on to train at speed. men sorting.
09:20:00 Begin of Auden poetry. Empty hills & train passing. View of steam up hills. Shoveling coal into firebox. Aerials. CU of wheels. PVO from engine & of engine seen.
09:21:25 Daylight & descending hills, wheels, engineers, rabbits running. POV of rails in CU & electrical wires. Runby large chimneys. Glasgow & Edinburgh, Aberdeen shots. Royal Mail into station. City w/ morning traffic & view of rail yard. Man wiping down engine. The End
Classic Documentary; Historical Occupation; Transportation; Communication; Narrative; Imagery; 1930s;
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NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Night Mail GPO Film Unit Prod. & Dir. Harry Watt & Basil Wright; Written by W.H. Auden. Narrated by John Grierson & Stuart Legg. Music by Benjamin Britten. Engine: Parallel-boilered Royal Scot No. 6115 Scots Guardsman on a London, Midland & Scottish Railway (L.M.S.) Anglo-Scottish mail train. 09:01:54 Office & train dispatcher on telephone. Aerial over trains & tracks. Ext. of station & int. w/ man at switches, CUs. View of passing train. 09:03:44 Workmen on track, whistle & men off tracks. Runby, men drink, smoke & back to work. Aerials & start of poetry narration. CU of wires. Man on phone. Passenger train into station, man “How long do we wait here?” Aerial over postal train. 09:05:21 Farmer leading horse past sheds; man looks at pocket watch by haystack. POV from train of village. Runby & man picks up newspaper thrown from train. Postmen w/ bags over shoulders; attach to post for automatic pick-up; runby & pickup in net. 09:07:46 Workers pull carts in station, load bags from other trains & up elevators. Control room & talk about holding postal. Mail carts moved. POV along tracks from front of train. Into station & unloading mail bags; loading new. Workers off train; new crew leaves coffee shop & boards. Engines exchanged. Mail sorters prepare to begin. CU new engine coupled. 09:11:40 Man checking wheels, train arriving, sign: Holyhead; mail transferred to Royal Mail postal train. Whistle signal blown, train leaving station from on train & platform view. Steam as it speeds out, view past industry, warehouses, mines. POV on track. Runbys. 09:14:23 Men sorting mail inside cars, emptying mailbags & sorting letter bundles; sorting letters. Bagging bundles of sorted letters. Supervisor. 09:16:24 Preparing bag for automatic dispatch. CU pouring tea at stove. Attaching bag for drop & into net for pickup. New bags picked up on to train at speed. men sorting. 09:20:00 Begin of Auden poetry. Empty hills & train passing. View of steam up hills. Shoveling coal into firebox. Aerials. CU of wheels. PVO from engine & of engine seen. 09:21:25 Daylight & descending hills, wheels, engineers, rabbits running. POV of rails in CU & electrical wires. Runby large chimneys. Glasgow & Edinburgh, Aberdeen shots. Royal Mail into station. City w/ morning traffic & view of rail yard. Man wiping down engine. The End Classic Documentary; Historical Occupation; Transportation; Communication; Narrative; Imagery; 1930s; NOTE: Any continuous minute sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk