'All My Loving' was created when John Lennon and Paul McCartney challenged Palmer, then a classical music documentarian, to make a film that encompassed the 1968 music world in one hour of screen time. This was the time of student demonstrations against the war in Vietnam and the music describes this struggle while also providing an escape from the troubles of the day. Great footage and interviews with the likes of The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Pink Floyd - who had just lost Syd Barrett -
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NIGHT MAIL / WEST HIGHLAND (1936)
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Comissioned by the GPO, 'Night Mail' (1936) is a much-studied piece of British cinema, which, in true modernist fashion, fuses film, poetry and music together in order to convey the success of the British postal service. West Highland (1960) is a beautiful tribute to the heady days of the steam railway that had, by the time this film was made, gone into decline.
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TERMINUS (1936)
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A fascinating documentary film about train travel, which gives us a glimpse of a day in the life, and lives, of Waterloo train station during the 60s. The disc also features 3 short films related to the theme, including Lonon-Brighton in Four Minutes, one of the most famous shortsever produced by the BBC. Enjoy the journey aboard the Brighton Belle at the speed of sound!
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