(Viewers are advised to use the 'watch in high quality' option for this video). 'Snow' is available to buy as part of the BFI DVD 'Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film' - http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk....
(Viewers are advised to use the 'watch in high quality' option for this video). 'Snow' is available to buy as part of the BFI DVD 'Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film' - http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/...
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)
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@newyork67 On a percentage basis there are no fewer railwaymen being killed now than there was then. The entire Health and Safety thing is a monster that's out of control and being fed by the empires that have been built on it. Line safety nowadays is dependant on holding a certificate, not being experienced. it's all a legal get-out clause, one day you and others will realise that.
Absolutely brilliant, a time when railways were admirable and interesting, not like nowadays. Health and safety fine, as long as it does not get to the silly stage like it can do. Great little film.
Ye lets go back to the good old days when over 500 railway men where killed a year because there was no health & safety to protect them from dangerous working practises, you clown!
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Health and safety fine, as long as it does not get to the silly stage like it can do.
Great little film.