Contains four films from one of Britain's foremost documentary filmmakers, John Krish: The Elephant Will Never Forget (1953), They Took Us To The Sea (1961), Our School (1962) and I Think They Call Him John (1964). This compilation justly won The Evening Standard Award for Best Documentary.
Until last autumn, John Krish was one of British cinema's best-kept secrets: an unsung master of postwar documentary filmmaking who repeatedly turned his works, for sponsors as diverse as the Central Office of Information and the NSPCC, into truly stirring cinema to rank alongside the world's greatest directors. Both critical and audience reaction to A Day in the Life: Four Portraits of Post-War Britain has deservedly brought long-overdue recognition to this most modest but brilliant of filmmakers.
This celebrated programme contains four of Krish's most cherished films: The Elephant Will Never Forget (1953), a poetic farewell to London's trams; They Took Us to the Sea (1961), a poignant record of a seaside outing for disadvantaged children; Our School (1962), charting the beliefs of educators, and the aspirations of the decade's young school-leavers; and I Think They Call Him John (1964), a deeply moving account of the life of an elderly widower.
