Night Mail
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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Genre: Documentary
Director: Basil Wright, Harry Watt
Actors: Arthur Clark, John Grierson, Robert Rae, Stuart Legg
Man with a Movie Camera
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Enthusiasm
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The Steel Road
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Day of Freedom
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Im Kampf mit dem Berge 1.Teil
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New Earth
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The Eleventh Year
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Ballet Mécanique
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