Snow (1963)

(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/info_59.html

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

You can watch over 1000 other complete films and TV programmes from the BFI National Archive free of charge in the Mediatheque at BFI Southbank, London and at the new QUAD centre for art and film in Derby -
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[TnT3Run]

Anyone else come just to use the snowflake button?

[31415equalspi]

I just came for the snowflake button.

[gupta5882]

love trains :)

[Tailterrier27]

Sweet, it looks like something out of Thomas the Tank Engine! Donald&Douglas the plow engines.

[WaerzMedia09]

@nanuJoe1967

True.

[nanuJoe1967]

@WaerzMedia09 u mean super express and high speed trains THAT CANT RUN in those conditions..

[TheBogus08]

Kurwa pociągi jak w Polsce 0_0 A już minęło pół wieku...

[WhiteStarVlogger]

@Gannett2011 I remember the snow of '78 and '81 too. I also remember the bad one day snow and heavy winds that whipped the snow into massive sculptures for a few days in 1987. I was at college then and it was very cold working in a demountable with no heating but your fellow mates.

[beowulf3075]

@WaerzMedia09 - Ha ha, quite agree. See there are a few moaners on here. As for the sound track, well not great, but haven't they noticed the mute button!

[fgfgfdngnbjgnbjgj543]

o co chodzi w tym filmie totalne zero

[DuallyDieselFord]

why is this soundtrack so groovy

[WaerzMedia09]

Magnificent seeing proper trains at work, not like this Super Express and High Speed 2 bollocks!