British Transport Films was an organisation set up in 1949 to make documentary films on the general subject of British transport. Its work included internal...
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The British Transport Commission (BTC) was created by Clement Attlee's post-war Labour government as a part of its nationalisation programme, to oversee...
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of British Rail's revolutionary new 155mph train. Weston-super-Mare: Avon-Anglia Publications & Services. ISBN 0-905466-37-3. British Transport Films (1975)...
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bodies: films (the bulk of which had been produced by British Transport Films) to the British Film Institute in London, photographs to the National Railway...
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London. Along with most British Transport Films of the period, it was produced by Edgar Anstey. It was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award for Best Documentary...
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The Finishing Line (category British Transport Films)
The Finishing Line is a short film produced in 1977 by British Transport Films and directed by John Krish. It was written by Krish and Michael Gilmour...
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13-minute-long film made by British Transport Films in 1979 and revised in 1986. Although it is not strictly a Public Information Film, it is often considered...
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Billy Williams (cinematographer) (category British cinematographers)
photographer. On leaving the RAF, he obtained a job with British Transport Films (BTF), filming all forms of transportation as an assistant cameraman for...
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British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most rail transport in Great Britain from 1948...
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Wild Wings (category British Transport Films)
Wild Wings is a 1966 British short documentary film directed by Patrick Carey and John Taylor and produced by British Transport Films. In 1966, it won an...
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documentary which is part of the British Transport Films Collection. It was made in 1951 and covers various aspects of British Transport as described below. First...
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Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (category British Transport Films)
1955 British Transport Film documentary directed by Kenneth Fairbairn. The 10-minute-long film presents a first-hand account of a team of British Railways...
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Elizabethan Express (category British Transport Films)
Elizabethan Express is a 1954 British Transport Film that follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London King's Cross to Edinburgh...
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Blue Pullmans (redirect from British Rail Class 251)
every year as the Midland Pullman. The units starred in the 1960 British Transport Films Blue Pullman directed by James Ritchie, which followed their development...
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short documentary film made by Geoffrey Jones for British Transport Films in 1962–1963. An example of "pure cinema", the 8-minute-long film shows the efforts...
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John Betjeman Goes by Train (category British Transport Films)
short documentary film directed by Malcolm Freegard and made by British Transport Films and BBC East Anglia. The 10-minute-long film features future poet...
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Rail (redirect from Rail (film))
(1967 film), a film by Geoffrey Jones for British Transport Films Rail (2024 film), a Tamil-language film Rail (magazine), a British rail transport periodical...
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documentary film made by Geoffrey Jones for British Transport Films between 1963 and 1967, prompted by the success of Snow. The "pure cinema" film illustrated...
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Geoffrey Jones (category British film director stubs)
and in particular British Transport Films. Jones's first major work for British Transport Films was the 1963 film Snow, an eight-minute short demonstrating...
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Journey into Spring (category British Transport Films)
Journey into Spring is a 1958 British short documentary film directed by Ralph Keene, and made by British Transport Films. It won the 1958 BAFTA Award...
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The England of Elizabeth (category British Transport Films)
documentary about the Elizabethan age, directed by John Taylor for British Transport Films. It is particularly noted for its score composed by Ralph Vaughan...
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four" were nationalised to form British Railways (latterly British Rail) under the control of the British Transport Commission. Although BR was a single...
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Gary Watson (category British television actor, 1930s birth stubs)
the 1970s and 1980s. He was particularly noted for his work for British Transport Films and commercials for Lloyds Bank and Nescafé. Watson was born in...
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with earlier British Transport Films, many of the personnel, scientists, engineers, crew and passengers were featured in the 20 minute film. It won several...
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Cinema of the United Kingdom (redirect from British films)
Prince. Early colour films were also pioneered in the UK. Film production reached an all-time high in 1936, but the "golden age" of British cinema is usually...
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Kevin Maguire (journalist) (category British male journalists)
Guests BBC Press Office TV Review: Natural Born Sellers, STV - The British Transport Films, BBC4 The Scotsman, 24 October 2008 "Kevin Maguire is a regular...
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1970. p. 41. "British Rail Engineering Ltd". Science Museum Group. Retrieved 23 September 2023. "The Train Makers". British Transport Films. 1981. Retrieved...
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Flying Scotsman (railway service) (category Named passenger trains of British Rail)
in the 1953 British Transport Films' Elizabethan Express, the name of another London-to-Edinburgh non-stop train. In the late 1950s British Railways (BR)...
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Ray Smith (actor) (category Use British English from May 2012)
In 1973, Smith provided the voice-over for the British Transport Film "Britania - A Bridge", a film about the redevelopment and reconstruction of the...
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Howard Marion-Crawford (category British Army personnel of World War II)
(1952) - Tea Shop Proprietor London's Country (1952) - Narrator (British Transport Films), ref.no.:2016/1859 Where's Charley? (1953) - Sir Francis Chesney...
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