Which film featured footage of interviews and a punk band, Night Mail or There Is No Authority But Yourself
Night Mail Night Mail is a 1936 documentary film about a London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) mail train from London to Scotland, produced by the GPO Film Unit. The film ends with a "verse commentary" by W. H. Auden, written for existing footage. Benjamin Britten scored the film. The film was directed by Harry Watt and Basil Wright, and narrated by John Grierson and Stuart Legg. The Brazilian filmmaker Alberto Cavalcanti was sound director. The locomotive featured in the film was Royal Scot 6115 "Scots Guardsman", built in 1927. The film has become a classic of its own kind, much imitated by adverts and modern film shorts. "Night Mail" is widely considered a masterpiece of the British Documentary Film Movement.
Tessa Hughes-Freeland Tessa Hughes-Freeland is a British-born experimental film maker and writer living in New York City. Her films have screened internationally in North America, Europe and Australia and in prominent museums and galleries, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin. She has collaborated on live multi-media projects with musicians like John Zorn and J. G. Thirlwell. The co-founder of the New York Film Festival Downtown in 1984 and its co-director until 1990, she later served as President of the Board of Directors of the Film-Makers Co-Operative in New York City from 1998-2001. Hughes-Freeland has published articles in numerous books, including “Naked Lens: Beat Cinema” and “No Focus: Punk Film,” and in periodicals including PAPER Magazine, "Filmmaker" magazine, GQ, the "East Village Eye", and Film Threat.