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The British Transport Films Collection Volume Eight: Points and Aspects DVD

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British Transport Films: Vol.8 features the following: Points and Aspects covers a variety of topics and illustrates the wide range of subjects the BTF Unit covered during it's years of production. Training Films are represented by such films as Single Line Working and Day to Day Track Maintenance travel is highlighted by Channel Islands and Scotland for Sport and illustrations of technical achievement well-served by such titles as The Long Night Haul Under the Wires and the namesake of this collection Points and Aspects.

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Released
18 August 2008
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Bfi Video Publishing 
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play  BRITISH TRANSPORT FILMS COLLECTION Following the nationalisation of transport in 1948 the British Transport Commission set up its own in-house film production unit Launched on 1st May 1949 and led for 25 years by Edgar Anstey OBE a founding father of the British documentary movement it became one of the largest industrial film units in Britain All these films are now preserved in the bfi National Film and Television Archive This selection has been digitally remastered for this two-disc set which is a &39;must&39; not for the documentary aficionado who will recognise traits and innovations in British non-fiction filmmaking Disc one Single Line Working (1958) Day to Day Track Maintenance Part 1 (1952) Day to Day Track maintenance Part 2 (1952) The Single Engineers (1962) Mishap (1958) Spick and Span (1962) Disc two The Long Night Haul (1957) Care of St Christopher&39;s (1959) Measured for Transport (1962) Channel Islands (1952) Under the Wires (1965) Points and Aspects (1974) Scotland for Sport (1958) UK 1952-1974 black and white and colour 289 minutes Ratio 1331

Eighth release in the BTF re-mastered transport films archive. Topics covered in this volume include: 'Single Line Working', 'Day to Day Track Maintenance Pt.1', 'Day to Day Track Maintenance Pt.2', 'The Signal Engineers', 'Mishap', 'Spick and Span', 'The Long Night Haul', 'Care of St Christopher', 'Measured for Transport', 'Channel Islands', 'Under the Wires', 'Points and Aspects' and 'Scotland for Sport'.