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Tags: BFI railways steam trains snow winter countryside British Transport Films BTF scotland Tyndrum

Length: 7:49

Description: Please note that we are currently experiencing sound problems with this title. We hope to correct this as soon as possible. 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. 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) For more information about 'Snow' see http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1234415/index.html 'Snow' is available to buy as part of the BFI DVD 'Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film' - http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_59.html . For details of other British Transport Films available for sale see http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/BFI_Filmstore_British_Transport_Films_28.html You can watch almost 1000 other complete films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive free of charge at the new BFI Mediatheque - http://www.bfi.org.uk/mediatheque

Author: BFIfilms

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