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Basil Wright, Britain, cinema, documentary, Harry Watt, mail, Night Mail, postal service, postal workers
A 1936 documentary on the dark side (read: graveyard shift) of the British postal service, Night Mail glorifies English and Scottish postal workers if not their postal work and effectively introduced the genre of “documentary” back in the day when, less accustomed to manipulative film techniques and to Stone Phillips, people could probably be ideologically influenced by an overall style that now seems a bit hokey.
