{"id":11756,"date":"2012-07-19T02:39:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T01:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=11756"},"modified":"2012-07-19T04:17:30","modified_gmt":"2012-07-19T03:17:30","slug":"terminus-by-john-schlesinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2012\/07\/19\/terminus-by-john-schlesinger\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminus by John Schlesinger"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Before John Schlesinger made his debut feature, A Kind of Loving<\/em><\/a> (1962), he directed a number of short documentary films. Terminus<\/em><\/a> (1961), a day in the life of the Waterloo railway station in London, is the most notable of these, an award-winning snapshot of a period when Britain’s railways were still nationalised and steam trains were about to vanish from regular service. The film has that crisp, black-and-white photography so typical of the early 1960s, a look which renders close-ups with uncanny fidelity and makes the outmoded fashions\u2014the bowler-hatted men and gloved women\u2014seem all the more curious. A year later Orson Welles was deploying a similar style when photographing the dishevelled splendour of the\u00a0Gare d’Orsay in Paris for his film of The Trial<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

For a different take on London’s railway stations there’s Terminus<\/em><\/a> by analogue electronic outfit Node<\/a>, a track inspired by concerts they played live at Paddington station in 1995.<\/p>\n

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