Many memories and associations - of a film which had its place in my history and film lecture rooms. (My first daughter learned the lines on my knee aged 3 while watching the GPO film on my editing desk.) Less known are the precise circumstances in which Auden worked on producing the finished work. He was stuck at a small writing table, facing a wall at the end of a corridor in the GPO Fim Unit's premises and, as the editing process of the film went on, he'd be told that possible sections would/would not 'fit'. These were often screwed up and chucked over his shoulder at a handy waste basket. Basil Wright recalls that they included a passage describing the Border hills as piled up like "flanks of slaughtered horses".
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