Courrier de nuit

Original title: Night Mail

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Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight.Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight.Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight.

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6.8/10

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Trivia
The sound recordists equipment was unable to record a realistic sound of the mail train clattering over the joints in the track during the "two bridges and 45 beats" trackside mailbag collection sequence. Eventually they resorted to recording the sound of a model train being pushed back and forth over joints in a model railway track in time to the film of the man on the train counting the beats.

Goofs
As the train approaches a signal box, it's pulling 12 carriages but there's only 8 in the shot of it going away, and some of them look like ordinary carriages rather than the fully enclosed mail ones.

Quotes
Commentary: [Reciting W.H. Auden poem] This is the Night Mail crossing the Border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order, Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door. Pulling up Beattock, a steady climb: The gradient's against her, but she's on time...

Connections
Featured in Hitchcock on Grierson (1965)

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Night Mail 1936 Style

If you've ever studied film or Media in England you would have certainly come across the GPO Film Unit during your studies. A unit formed by John Grierson after being influenced by Robert Flaherty of 'Nanook of the North' fame!

This documentary shows how the people of 1930's United Kingdom got there mail from a to b!

Directed Basil Wright with commentary by John Grierson & Stuart Legg and superb and now famous poem finale by the now great W.H. Auden this is a good documentary.

8/10