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Film Description
Schlesinger's famous film celebrates 24 hours in the life of Waterloo Station and is one of the very best railway films. Three other films are also featured on this collection: British Locomotives (1959) a rare colour film of British-made locos and rolling stock on overseas railways; First of the Thirteen (1970) - a colour record of the modernisation of the BR signal network and London-Brighton in Four Minutes (1966) which is a trip on the Brighton Belle that is exactly what it says!
Film Information
| Director | John Schlesinger | ||||
| Genre | Documentary
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| Country | UK | Language | ENGLISH | Year | 1961 |
Technical Details
| Certificate | Ex | Length | 118 mins | Label | DD | ||
| Cat No | 121368 | Format | DVD | Black & White | |||
| Region | 2 | Aspect | 1.33:1 | ||||
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Review by Graeme Hobbs on 1st April 2005
One of the most famous British Transport films, John Schlesinger’s award-winning Terminus, a half-hour narration-free portrait of 24 hours in the life of Waterloo Station, is an impressionistic collage of the place’s sights and sounds. It’s a sprightly piece of work, beautifully edited together, and which remains fresh after numerous viewings. Schlesinger is fascinated by the everyday dramas that happen there - the greetings and partings, the missed rendezvous, the little boy lost, and these are cut against the life of the place behind the scenes. There’s also a lovely vein of observational humour running through the film which is perfectly complemented by the jazz soundtrack.
The DVD also features three bonus films. There’s London – Brighton in Four Minutes (1966), which is exactly what it says, a trip on the Brighton Belle heading south at faster than the speed of sound. Try and watch it without swaying! Also included is British Locomotives, a rare (and lurid) colour film from 1959, and First of the Thirteen, a record of the modernisation of the BR signal network in the 1970s.
View more reviews by Graeme Hobbs
Article - "British Transport Films Vol 3"
by Graeme Hobbs
Monday 1st May 2006
This third collection of British Transport Films from the bfi presents another fourteen diverse films that reinforce the message that they really are a jewel in Britain’s film heritage. No matter that they may have begun life as training and instructional films, or a... View article in full
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This film is part of the following Film Collections
Including: All That Mighty Heart, British Buses - The Golden Years, British Transport Films Collection (Vol 1): On and Off the Rails, British Transport Films Collection (Vol 2): See Britain by Train, British Transport Films Collection (Vol 3): Running a Railway, British Transport Films Collection (Vol 4): Reshaping British Railways, Farewell To The Routemaster - The Last Days Of The Famous London Bus, Fred Dibnahs World Of Steel, Steam And Stone Part 1 & 2, Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm of Film, Metro-Land.
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