Basil Wright’s and Harry Watt’s film “Night Mail” (1936)

We have been talking about how ethnography is rarely “value free.” Neither is ethnographic film.

Take a look at “Night Mail” and ask how this film might have been different had it been made independently rather than having been funded by “interested” parties.

Night Mail, Part 1

Night Mail, Part 2

Night Mail, Part 3

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