Night Mail
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United Kingdom · 1936
25m
Director Basil Wright
Starring Arthur Clark, John Grierson, Stuart Legg, Robert Rae
Genre Documentary
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Night Mail is a short (25 minute) black and white documentary made in 1936. It shows 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. Don't miss the W H Auden poem 'Night Mail' toward the end of the film!
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