Every Valley

This 1 minute film is an extract from one of the 500 British Transport Film productions made in the 1940s-70s:



It's a sequence from Every Valley (1957), one of the most lyrical of the films, which looks at the omnipresent role of the railways in this part of Wales.

And whereas the music in the rest of the film is delightful (this being choir country, Handel features prominently), here in stark contrast we just have the ambient sounds of the trains.

But this sequence is something very special. And almost a case study in great editing.