Night Mail

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Night Mail (1938)

Directed by Harry Watt, Basil Wright

Documentary · 25m

This documentary short examines 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.

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Cast

Crew

Director
Harry Watt, Basil Wright
Writer
W.H. Auden
Director of Photography
H.E. Fowle, Jonah Jones
Editor
Basil Wright, Richard Q. McNaughton, Alberto Cavalcanti
Producer
Basil Wright, Harry Watt

Details

Release date
1938-05-13
Runtime
25m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
United Kingdom
Production
GPO Film Unit