Night Mail

Duration: 0:22:00

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Presents an early documentary account of the overnight journey of the Post Office train, collecting and delivering mail from London to Glasgow. Uses on-the-spot sound recording., Documents the "Postal Special" enroute from London to Scotland showing the sorting of the mail. Music by Benjamin Britten and verse commentary by W. H. Auden.

Complete Record: , The classic documentary of the dramatic journey of the Postal Special from London to Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. The express is manned by Post Office workers who sort the mail on board and conduct the exacting work of receiving and dispatching it at specific points throughout the trip. , , NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

This film is not rare.

4 users have this film:
Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, Kinonik, New York Public Library, Visual Studies Workshop

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