This fly on the wall-style documentary from 1961 won an Oscar for best documentary, and shows the changing patterns of human emotions during 24 hours in the life of Waterloo Station.
Direction
Schlesinger finds drama in the utterly mundane.
Editing
Seamless 24-hour cycle feels like breathing.
Director
John Schlesinger
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Schlesinger made this between his early BBC work and his breakthrough feature A Kind of Loving, essentially proving he could direct 'nothing happening' with devastating precision.
Waterloo in 1961 was the end of an era—the last gasp of steam age Britain before Beeching cuts demolished rural networks and British Rail homogenized everything.
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