Night Mail [digital video].

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Wright, Basil, film director.

Watt, Harry, film director.

Publication Date:

1936

2022

Publication Information:

British Film Institute, 1936.

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (streaming video file) (24 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

Abstract:

The nightly journey of the Postal Special from London to Glasgow. The flagship of the GPO Film Unit's output and a cornerstone of British documentary. Harry Watt and Basil Wright's study of the down postal express stands as a beacon for John Grierson's original purpose for documentary - to make the working man the hero of the screen. A truly collaborative effort, a coming together of many great names and those immortal lines from W.H. Auden.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subject Term:

History.

Foreign study.

Genre:

Documentary films.

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