Movies: Paul Le Saux

  • 1956
    The Long Night Haul

    The Long Night Haul (1956)

    The Long Night Haul

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    The history of the BRS (British Road Services), the general haulage network of the UK. Part of BFI collection "Points and Aspects."...

    The Long Night Haul
  • 1954
    East Anglian Holiday

    East Anglian Holiday (1954)

    East Anglian Holiday

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    A tour of East Anglia, with its waterways and low-lying country....

    East Anglian Holiday
  • 1952
    Dodging the Column

    Dodging the Column (1952)

    Dodging the Column

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    The transporting of a distillation colurm, 137 feet long, 500 miles by road from Greenwich to Grangemouth in Scotland. The commentary, spoken by the rigger in charge and one of the tractor drivers, expresses the humour and resourcefulness with which ...

    Dodging the Column
  • 1955
    Snowdrift at Bleath Gill

    Snowdrift at Bleath Gill (1955)

    Snowdrift at Bleath Gill

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    Snowploughs are readied to rescue a snowbound train - in one of the most popular of all British Transport Films....

    Snowdrift at Bleath Gill
  • 1957
    A Future on Rail

    A Future on Rail (1957)

    A Future on Rail

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    Short documentary hymning the wonders of 'modernisation' on the railways....

    A Future on Rail
  • 1959
    Diesel Trainride

    Diesel Trainride (1959)

    Diesel Trainride

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    Through the forward-looking windows of the new diesel multiple-unit trains reveals a new world of signs, signals and railway sights to those who ride behind the driver. For children, particularly, find this is a fascinating experience. This film comm...

    Diesel Trainride
  • 1954
    London's Country

    London's Country (1954)

    London's Country

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    This film shows us a world of wildlife and flowers and scenic beauty within easy reach of London - where people can enjoy yachting on the Thames, or archery at Sevenoaks; riding in Knole Park, or morris-dancing at Westerham; walking over the hills ne...

    London's Country
  • 1958
    Giant Load

    Giant Load (1958)

    Giant Load

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    A 200-ton transformer is moved by road from Hayes, Middlesex, to Iver, Bucks. Behind the story of the journey there is another tale: the problems which had to be solved before the task could be undertaken. This background story is told by the voices ...

    Giant Load
  • 1955
    Cine Gazette No. 14: Do You Remember?

    Cine Gazette No. 14: Do You Remember? (1955)

    Cine Gazette No. 14: Do You Remember?

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    The operation of the London Transport central Lost Property Office at Baker Street. Collected in BFI's "London on the Move."...

    Cine Gazette No. 14: Do You Remember?
  • 1954
    Elizabethan Express

    Elizabethan Express (1954)

    Elizabethan Express

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    Originally intended as an advertising short, this film follows The Elizabethan, a non-stop British Railways service from London to Edinburgh along the East Coast Main Line. A nostalgic record of the halcyon years of steam on British Railways and the ...

    Elizabethan Express
  • 1959
    Care of St Christopher’s

    Care of St Christopher’s (1959)

    Care of St Christopher’s

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    ‘St Christopher’s - for the children of Railway Servants’. About a hundred children are cared for at this Derby railway orphanage and this film gives a selection of scenes from a typical day: the breakfast mail, a boy with a problem, a girl with a wo...

    Care of St Christopher’s
  • 1958
    Under Night Streets

    Under Night Streets (1958)

    Under Night Streets

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    After the last train at night and before the first in the morning, 800 people are hard at work behind the scenes making London's Underground fit to travel on. Including brushing dust from ventilation ducts, ‘fluffers’ cleaning up rubbish, routine rai...

    Under Night Streets
  • 1956
    A Day of One's Own

    A Day of One's Own (1956)

    A Day of One's Own

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    A random selection of housewives around the UK take a day off from their traditional domestic chores....

    A Day of One's Own
  • 1960
    A Dream of Norway

    A Dream of Norway (1960)

    A Dream of Norway

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    England is eighteen hours behind you and the Leda is in sight of Bergen. Your shipboard reverie is about to become reality. The fjords, glaciers and waterfalls, with the lovely melodies of Edward Grieg to reflect the changing moods of western Norway....

    A Dream of Norway
  • 1956
    Men on the Mend

    Men on the Mend (1956)

    Men on the Mend

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    When Joe Miller breaks his ankle on the shop floor, he is sent with some trepidation to the British Railways rehab centre, a cross between a modern gym and an old-school metalwork classroom....

    Men on the Mend
  • 1964
    Southampton Docks

    Southampton Docks (1964)

    Southampton Docks

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    Southampton's role as a major cargo centre, showing cargo operations at the deep water quays and in the modern transit sheds....

    Southampton Docks
  • 1953
    A Place in the Team

    A Place in the Team (1953)

    A Place in the Team

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    People will always need transport and transport will always need people. Addressed particularly to boys of school-leaving age and to young men completing their period of military service, this film shows some of the wide variety of careers which Brit...

    A Place in the Team
  • 1966
    Train Driver

    Train Driver (1966)

    Train Driver

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    Based on instructional material, this film explains the preparation and procedures for the operation of a then modern AC electric locomotive, also taking in diesel haulage and shots of steam traction. The opening sequence features an early use of the...

    Train Driver