underground
04Aug
Under Night Streets: BBC4
posted by Paul Murphy
I haven’t seen enough pre-1960s british documentaries to say how widespread this might be, but the use of voiceover in Under Night Streets, a 1958 documentary about the Underground’s 800 night shift workers, to create a narrative over the pictures seems to be straight out of Billy Wilder’s 1950 Sunset Boulevard.
Not only does our gruff-voiced [...]
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