Night Mail

United Kingdom, 1936

Film

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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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Credits

director

Basil Wright

Harry Watt

production company

GPO Film Unit

GPO (General Post Office) Film Unit

writer

W.H. Auden

Duration

25:00

Production places
United Kingdom
Production dates
1936

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

tmdb-movie-77963

Language

English

Subject category

Documentary

TMDB-Movie

77963

Wikidata

Q943563

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