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Night Mail on TV


melmerby
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Hi all

 

There is a showing of the classic "Night Mail" (again?) on Talking Pictures TV

 

Next Tuesday 15th May at 1935

Benjamin Britten's score, WH Auden's Poetic lines and a 1936 LMS postal train.

What more could you want?

 

Virgin 445
Freeview 81
Sky channel 328
Freesat 306
Youview 81

 

Keith

 

Edit corrected broadcast time

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The old film is rather lovely.

 

Have you seen the re-interpretation from the wonderful Public Service Broadcasting?

 

IMHO the visuals were a right mess!

 

keith

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Here comes a nightmare, crossing the border,

Bringing the male a paternity order,

 

Is that the one?

No

It's "here's the Footex crossing the border, drunkness, fighting, total disorder!" :jester:

 

keith

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It was on again this afternoon but I missed it.

 

No doubt it'll be run as required.....

 

Audens verse is atrocious, Brittens music worse.  Both are of their era.  'nuff said!

 

 

I only watch it for the visuals.

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Audens verse is atrocious, Brittens music worse.  Both are of their era.  'nuff said!

 

 

I only watch it for the visuals.

 

Disagree inherently

But even if they are of their era, they are reather emplematic of that era, both for what they were, and they way they were combined (poetry, music film), and in their use to educate the public.

 

Have you tried focusing on the music without the images and words

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This film is on a permanent loop at the Bo'ness and Kinneil railway museum - inside a mail coach. Wonderful stuff

 

They do the same with Elizabethan Express when Llangollen Railway have the Thompson Lounge Buffet Car running. It's actually in the film so you can watch the film whilst riding in the same carriage.

 

http://www.llangollen-railway.org.uk/lnerveh.html

 

 

 

Jason

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Talking Pictures is great for research i record bits of film they show for details of what streets look like in the 1950,60, It surprising how much bomb damage there was even in the 60's.

Now my  no.1 channel.

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Slightly off topic but I find this very good especially when driving my car!

 

 

You only have to go back a few posts to find it has already been mentioned! (we're still only on page 1!)

 

Keith

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