Monday, 18 March 2024

Terminus (1961 John Schlesinger & scr)

Short 33 minute documentary about Waterloo station - more a succession of moments (there's no commentary) and impressions - a lost boy, sailors, drunks, a group of prisoners en route somewhere, farewells, reunions. And unexpected touches, like that on the roof, someone's keeping a beehive. Image and sound well manipulated from no doubt tons of footage.

Music by Ron Grainer. Schlesinger graduated to features the next year - A Kind of Loving followed by Billy Liar.



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