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	<title>David Watkin &#187; BTF in the 1960&#8242;s</title>
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		<title>The Travolators, 1961 for BTF</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mullen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This a short, nine minute film to commemorate the construction of the Travolator between the Bank and Waterloo stations in London to supplement the long walk required of City commuters and nicknamed The Drain. The otherwise exemplary box of DVDs, The British Transport Film Collection does not identify any credits. For the only time that I am aware of, the credits of a BTF production were merged in a democratically alphabetical list without designation of jobs. Can this be any other than David Watkin? It is an odd carelessness to get his name wrong. Apart from its historic value, and evidence of the balance of surface and underground excavation and construction, the film culminates in a sequence of the opening of the Travolator by the Lord Mayor, uneasy in his ceremonial role pressing the button as hordes of merry-makers gather to be the first to use the facility. There seems a deliberate attempt in the editing to stress the Commoners ribaldry at the face of Officialdom, all set in a most brilliantly lit white tube, an apotheosis of reflected light.]]></description>
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		<title>Blue Pullman, 1960 for BTF</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blue Pullman, 1960 was directed and written by Jimmie Ritchie and photographed by David Watkin and Jack West. It was edited by Hugh Raggett with music by Clifton Parker. The film was shot in colour and lasts almost 23 minutes, exploring the intensive testing of the new 90mph diesel-electric Midland Pullman, and its maiden journey from Manchester to London. Hugh Raggett writes to me (September 2009) that the film is not a good transfer from the 35mm original &#8220;a shame because the colour is far too bright and harsh, the original show copies had more fine detail and were softer.&#8221;  Far from being a utilitarian presentation of the steps needed to test this new train, the film is an elaboration of surface and designed style, set at the beginning as a sort of murder mystery complete with headless body on the floor. Clifton Parker’s music is a set of variations on Bartok’s Concerto for Orchestra, an ominous backing to technical equipment swaying in the motion of the carriage, with wires, string, cables, and an abandoned set of headphones on a seat. Both lavatories are in use, one as a Dark Room, the other to house testing equipment. Throughout the film, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working at British Transport Films</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The career of David Watkin revealed through photographic glimpses&#8230; British Transport Films Alan working at 25 Saville Row, 1955 Alan and Tom in the Post Office Yard, Waterloo, 1956 BTF crew: Baxter, Richie and Williams England&#8217;s North Country BTF crew: Robertson and Richie]]></description>
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		<title>BTF by Barry Coward</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born into an illustrious railway family, David Watkin began work with the Southern Region Film Unit of British Railways in the late 1940&#8242;s. In 1950 he became a messenger boy and assistant cameraman at British Transport Films. Barry Coward writes: One day in 1981 I received a phone call from a David Watkin asking for a video copy of the BTF production Under Night Streets. At that time I was head of the Public Relations Strategy Team at London Transport and BTF had recently sent all the film they had shot for London Transport to us, as part of the winding up operation run by Jimmy Ritchie. We did telecine Under Night Streets for David and subsequently he paid for other BTF titles to be tele-cined including Care of St Christopher&#8217;s, What&#8217;s in Store, The Finishing Line (made long after David had left BTF, but directed by John Krish, who&#8217;s work David much admired), Holiday, All That Mighty Heart, A Desperate Case, MFD Re-railing Equipment, Diesel Train Driver and Snow Drift at Bleath Gill. British Transport Films was created by the British Transport Commission following nationalisation of much of the country&#8217;s public transport, road haulage, ports and waterways by the [...]]]></description>
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