Night Mail

Night Mail is a Post Office publicity film, released in 1936, which showed how the night mail train worked. The musical score was composed by Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden wrote the commentary as a poem that captures the rhythm of the train. John Grierson, founder of the British documentary tradition who later started the National Film Board of Canada, brought together the best young talents in Britain to produce a masterpiece of documentary film making..

Director: Basil Wright, Harry Watt.
Screenplay: John Grierson, Basil Wright, Harry Watt.
Commento: W.H. Auden.
Director of photography: Jonah Jones, Chick Fowle.
Music: Benjamin Britten.
Editor: Basil Wright, R.Q. McNaughton.
Production company: GPO Film Unit.