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	<title>David Watkin &#187; Snowdrift at Bleath Gill</title>
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		<title>Snowdrift at Bleath Gill, 1955 for BTF</title>
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				<category><![CDATA[British Transport Films]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[BTF in the 1950's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Paynter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Watkin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kenneth Fairburn. John Legard]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Snowdrift at Bleak Gill, 1955, directed by Kenneth Fairburn, edited by John Legard and photographed by Bob Paynter. David Watkin was an unacknowledged assistant on this film. The film is 10minutes, largely devoted to the single task of freeing a goods engine and carriages from snowdrifts using a mechanised snow plough and gangs of diggers, mainly by the light of the Moon and huge Tilly lamps. “Ken Fairbairn was a nice man. Known as &#8220;Twitcher&#8221; because of a tendency to be hyper-anxious whenever you were sorting out the necessary things for the shot to be useable. He was also small in stature, resulting in most of his set-ups being done on the baby-legs, which was a bit trying. He wrote his own scripts for the most part; one that I did for him about the lost luggage office was called A DESPERATE CASE. Another about incoherent station announcements had a similarly apt title to begin with: GET LOST! But Edgar made him change it. A phone call about about 9.30 one freezing evening  asked would I collect some camera gear with Bob Payntor and travel up to Barnard Castle in Yorkshire. There we bundled ourselves inside a snow-plough and set [...]]]></description>
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