
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play One of the most critically acclaimed & best-loved films produced within the British documentary movement Night Mail tells the fascinating story of the Travelling Post Office from Euston to Glasgow & the men who worked on it Given a modest budget of only £2000 & conceived as a routine film promoting Post Office services the collective talents of the GPO Film Unit turned out an ambitious & inventive fusion of image sound music & poetry that became an instant classic & archetype of the genre The memorable final section of the film featuring Benjamin Britten&s innovative score & verse by W H Auden timed to the rhythms of the train is justly famous & perhaps the most lyrical final sequence in the history of documentary film