Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (1955)
- Directed by
- Ken Fairbairn
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 10 min
- Rating
- 6.4 of 10 from 5 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A crew of railway workers dig a goods train out of a heavy snowdrift in the English Pennines. The film shows their step by step efforts to clear the track and get the train moving again.
factualobservationalearnestquietmethodicalretroworkmanlikegritty
What happens
Snowdrift at Bleath Gill is a 1955 British Transport Film documentary directed by Kenneth Fairbairn. The 10-minute-long film presents a first-hand account of a team of British Railways workmen freeing a goods train stuck in a snowdrift on the South Durham and Lancashire Union Railway at Bleath Gill in the Pennines on the border between County Durham, Yorkshire and Westmorland. A fine example of an industrial documentary, the British Film Institute call it "One of the most outstanding films of its kind". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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