Features newly composed scores for the silent British films by Neil Thomas. Fully illustrated booklet with a major new essay by Henry K. Miller.
Contents:
Turksib (1930 John Grierson version, 78 min., silent with English intertitles and music) -- Workers' Topical News No. 1 ( 1930, 5 min., silent) -- Australian Wines (Paul Rotha, 1931, 3 min., silent) -- Shadow on the Mountains (Arthur Elton, 1931, 20 min., silent) -- The Country Comes to Town (Basil Wright, 1933, 22 min.) -- Face of Britain (Paul Rotha, 1935, 19 min.) -- Night Mail (Harry Watt, Basil Wright, 1936, 23 min.).
Summary:
In the early 1930's, Soviet propaganda films profoundly influenced the emerging luminaries of the British documentary film movement, shaping their ideas about film as an art form. In this specially curated edition of both the Blu-ray and the DVD of the film and the extras, Viktor Turin's 1929 classic about the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, Turksib, is presented alongside a number of key British documentaries - including the celebrated Night Mail - all of which were made in the wake of Turksib by filmakers whose debt to the film is very much in evidence.
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