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Geoffrey Jones: The Rhythm Of Film [1956] [DVD]

Geoffrey Jones    Exempt   DVD
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  • Directors: Geoffrey Jones
  • Producers: Geoffrey Jones
  • Format: PAL
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: Exempt
  • Studio: Bfi
  • DVD Release Date: 27 Jun 2005
  • Run Time: 86 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0009M9FGO
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 42,721 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Collection of the innovative and experimental short films by celebrated filmmaker Geoffrey Jones, spanning his career from 1955 to 2004 and exploring his signature themes of industrialism, the changing seasons, and the marriage of imagery to music and rhythm. The short films are: 'Snow'; 'Rail'; 'Locomotion'; 'Trinidad and Tobago'; 'Shell Spirit'; 'This is Shell'; 'Seasons Project'; 'A Chair-a-Plane Kwela' and 'A Chair-a-Plane Flamenco'.


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"The Rhythm of Film" contains some of the most stunning films I have ever seen. Geoffrey Jones, who sadly died just days before the DVD's release, called himself a director-editor and it is the arrangement and juxtaposition of scenes and the brilliant use of the accompanying upbeat, rhythmic music that makes these films so exhilarating; sound and vision has never been so exciting. The collection includes three BTF shorts, `Snow'(1963), `Rail' (1966) and `Locomotion' (1975) a number of films made for Shell and BP and some independently made films. For many, including myself, it will be the BTF films that are the stars. `Snow' was quickly shot over a few weeks in February 1963 when the UK was in the grip of a severe winter. The resulting shots were then brilliantly edited into a snapshot of the railway and the wintry landscape. Perhaps my favourite segment is a joyous clip of a pony galloping alongside in a line-side field . The accompanying music, based on Sandy Nelson's jazzy `Teen Beat' builds up in pace like a accelerating steam locomotive. `Rail' opens with gentle views of London termini and then ups the pace as we join footplate crews (including a wonderfully atmospheric clip racing along on a bucking, roaring Bullied Merchant Navy pacific with the driver staring intently at the road ahead), passengers playing cards, a signalman throwing levers and waiters with almost ballet-like grace making their ways through a Pullman train, all perfectly set to some wonderful music, including some of the laziest, sexiest horn playing. Following a gentle farewell to the steam railway the film's last third moves up a gear and looks at the modern (in 1966) railway with Euston line electrics rushing to and fro. `Locomotion' follows the development of railways from the Stockton & Darlington to modern day, simultaneously showing the development of images from engravings to photos to film, all again accompanied by music accelerating from the slow plodding of Locomotion to the High Speed Train.

The other films too are brilliant examples of Jones' editing skills and are highly recommended viewing. The disc includes an insightful and informative interview with Jones.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Memento of an Undervalued Film Maker 26 Nov 2010
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Geoffrey Jones is a film maker that deserves to be better remembered than he is. This BFI dvd is an excellently produced compilation of nearly all his work with an informative interview with Geoffery Jones made just before he died. I suspect many people have watched Locomotion and Snow without recalling who made them. The pulsating, rhythmic, counterpoint of modern music with strong colourful imagery made an instant impression on me. Strangely the films discussed in the otherwise excellent booklet are not always the ones on the DVD. However the films on the DVD are correctly listed on the case.
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4.0 out of 5 stars SNOW!!! 26 Dec 2012
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Wish I had bought it earlier! Primarily for its railway content and the atmospheric music of Geoffrey Jones; the additional films of the 50's and 60's brought back the memories of my youth. Recommended
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