Night Mail : The GPO Story (DVD / Documentary 1986)

\n\nNight Mail : The GPO Story (DVD / Documentary 1986) \n\nClick image to enlarge\n\nDescription\n\nDescription\n\n\""The GPO Story\"" (1986, colour). BBC frend's tribute to the GPO Film Unit featuring many of the original filmmakers, including Hary Watt, Basil Wright, Stuart Legg, Edgar Anstey, Chick Fowle, Pat Jackson, R.Q. McNaughton, Ralph Bond and Ken Cameron.\n\n\""Night Mail\"" (1936, b/w), which celebrates the Postal Special's run from London to Scotland, helped establish the style of the British documentary movement..ed Dy John grierson. Its realism and lyrical structure is perfectly complemented by the verse of WH. fuden and the music of Benjamin Britten.\n\n\""The Midnight Hours\"" (1987, colour. Each phase of the extraordinary operation of collecting and sorting the nation's mail for distribution by road, rail and air is shown in this television documentary. The film's structure updates the classic \""Night Mail\"" made over half a century earlier.\n\n\""Post Haste\"" (1988,.