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Rail (1967)

Rail poster
Directed by
Geoffrey Jones
Genre
documentary film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
14 min
Rating
7.2 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This short documentary follows trains and railway work in Britain. It shows trains moving through the countryside and workers maintaining the tracks and stations.

energeticrhythmicfast-pacedobservationalvisually busyindustrialkinetic

What happens

Rail is a short 13.5 minute documentary film made by Geoffrey Jones for British Transport Films between 1963 and 1967, prompted by the success of Snow. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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