Snow (1963)

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Snow (1963)
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Snow did not bring the railways to a halt in 1963.
Comprising train and track footage quickly shot just before a heavy winter's snowfall was melting, the award-winning classic that emerged from the cutting-room compresses British Rail's dedication to blizzard-battling into a thrilling eight-minute montage cut to music. Tough-as-boots workers struggling to keep the line clear are counterpointed with passengers' buffet-car comforts.
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Dir. Geoffrey Jones, 1963; 7min47 This is slightly hypnotic from the start and really kicks in at about 3min.  The material could be intensely boring but cut to Teen Beat (Sandy Wilson) the effect is strangely exciting. In a mere half-dozen films released between 1959 and 1975, director Geoffrey Jones revealed himself as an outstanding talent, embracing industrial filmmaking as consistent with a personal style, blending movement and sound into a joyous, rhythmic whole. Brilliantly aided by Wolfgang Suschitzky's shimmering camerawork, the Oscar-nominated 'Snow' is Jones' masterpiece. It's crisply invigorating enough to induce brief amnesia about our trains' notorious inability to cope with the white stuff - then and now. (Patrick Russell) He died in 2005; obituary.
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