This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the overnight run from Euston, London to Glasgow.
Direction
Watt and Wright turn mail sorting into visual music.
Writing
W.H. Auden's verse narration is unexpectedly horny for logistics.
Editing
Montage so tight you feel the train's rhythm in your bones.
Director
Harry Watt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is the OG British documentary movement flex—Grierson essentially invented 'creative treatment of actuality' here.
Benjamin Britten's score was his first film commission; he was 22 and already showing off.
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