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Whilst browsing in the "General Interest" section of HMV last Saturday I picked up a new(?) well © 2007 DVD published the British Film Institute entitled "Night Mail". This contains a digitally remastered version of the "one of the most critically acclaimed and best loved films produced within the British documentary movement", the eponymous "Night Mail" which was produced by the GPO Film Unit with a budget of £2000 in 1936. For this princely sum they managed to employ a certain W.H.Auden and a 21 year old composer by the name of Benjamin Britten.
The DVD also contains the following items to take the total viewing time to a shade under 2 hours:-
"The Way to the Sea" (1936, featuring verse by Auden, music by Britten)
"Spotlight on the Night Mail" (1948)
"Thirty Million Letters" (1963)
"Night Mail 2" (1986)
If this sounds familiar to owners of the British Transport Films series of double DVDs, that shouldn't be a surprise, especially as "Thirty Million Letters" was produced by BTF.
David
The DVD also contains the following items to take the total viewing time to a shade under 2 hours:-
"The Way to the Sea" (1936, featuring verse by Auden, music by Britten)
"Spotlight on the Night Mail" (1948)
"Thirty Million Letters" (1963)
"Night Mail 2" (1986)
If this sounds familiar to owners of the British Transport Films series of double DVDs, that shouldn't be a surprise, especially as "Thirty Million Letters" was produced by BTF.
David