Tribute Amos Vogel
NIGHT MAIL
Basil Wright, Harry Watt
GBR 1936
25 min
V'04
Night Mail was never meant to be a work of art but thats what it became. The Post Office commissioned it as an information-cum-publicity film for its employees to show what happened to the mail on its journey to Scotland. It shows Britain as it probably was: companionable, ordered, hard-working, quirky, humorous, rigorous, self-confident, gritty, inventive, conservative, insular, down-to-earth, disciplined. (Rob Ainsley)
Credits
- Chick Fowle
- Jonah Jones
- Basil Wright
- Benjamin Britten
- John Grierson/Stuart Legg
- H.W. Auden
Royal Mail, GPO Film Unit
Royal Mail Film, Archive, Education Distribution Service, PO Box 145, Sittingbourne, Kent, ME10 1NH, Großbritannien, brw@edist.co.uk
35 mm
bw
