Snow (Geoffrey Jones, 1963)

Sep

27

Stockton and Darlington Railway – 1825

A steam locomotive ploughing through the snow using her cowcatcher. DP: Wolfgang Suschitzky.

A steam locomotive to celebrate the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825, the world's first public railway to use steam locomotives.

The Big Freeze of 1963 was one of the coldest winters recorded in British history. It was during this winter that filmmaker Geoffrey Jones was commissioned by British Transport Films to make a documentary about the British Railways Board. With the freeze setting in, Jones ran the footage in preparation of post-production, and was struck by the blackness of the locomotives against the white of the many feet of snow. This smaller experimental project became Snow. Accompanied by a stretched out version of the jazz tune Teen Beat, and BBC Radiophonic Workshop's own Daphne Oram, Snow is an improbable hypnotic trip in an impossible landscape.

#Bales2025FilmChallenge #steamtrains #GeoffreyJones #JohnnyHawksworth #DaphneOram #WolfgangSuschitzky #trains #winter #snow #CinémaPur #ShortFilm #documentary #UK #1960s ★★★★☆

#Bales2025FilmChallenge of September 27: a steam locomotive

Snow (Geoffrey Jones, 1963)
Accompanied by a stretched out version of the jazz tune Teen Beat, and BBC Radiophonic Workshop's own Daphne Oram, Snow is an improbable hypnotic trip in an impossible landscape.
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#GeoffreyJones #JohnnyHawksworth #DaphneOram #WolfgangSuschitzky #trains #winter #snow #CinémaPur #ShortFilm #documentary #cinemastodon #film

Charing Cross Road, 1936/37

Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912–2016), Austrian-born British documentary photographer

"Composition is not a matter of rules, it’s a matter of taste.”

#wolfsuschitzky #wolfgangsuschitzky #photographer #photography #charingcrossroad #london #photoworld #1930s #thethirties #streetscenes #documentaryphotography

Charing Cross Road, 1936/37

Wolfgang Suschitzky (1912–2016), Austrian-born British documentary photographer

"Composition is not a matter of rules, it’s a matter of taste.”

#wolfsuschitzky #wolfgangsuschitzky #photographer #photography #charingcrossroad #london #photoworld #1930s #thethirties #streetscenes #documentaryphotography

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Expectations VS Reality 😅

Wolfgang Suschitzky, Hampstead Heath Fair 1949, Tate collection

Eugène Mihaesco, couverture du New Yorker, 10 avril 1978

#WolfgangSuschitzky #Tate #EugeneMihaesco #NewYorker #avril #manège #pluie #illustration #photographie #photography