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13 November 2010 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

The BFI is currently staging a major season at the BFI Southbank of postwar British documentaries, and to accompany it there's an extended run of this compilation of four films by one of our finest documentarists, John Krish, who started out as an editor (he had credits on Harry Watt's Target for Tonight and Humphrey Jennings's Listen to Britain). The first is the classic The Elephant Will Never Forget (1953) a lively, nostalgia-rich record of the last week of the last London tram. The others, each set on a single day in the early 1960s, deal with a seaside outing by Birmingham schoolkids to Weston-super-Mare, an afternoon in a secondary modern school, and an elderly widower spending a day alone in a London high-rise flat. Seeing them is like opening a series of time capsules. The best three are on the four-disc set of 32 films, Shadows of Progress: Documentary »

- Philip French

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