Here's another f the many, many short subjects that British rail produced, all about how they're doing a job, both routine and necessary It begins, as you might suspect from the title, with a brief look at the City of York, an goes on for some twenty minutes about this or that.
I suppose it was all chalked up to public relations or advertising or whatever they called it in the 1953 budget. It argues either enormous profits, real or potential, or sheer wastage. Still it was done to assuage the grumblings of the ministry that subsidized the rails. "The public doesn't understand! Can't you make a short film that will get them off our backs?" And so they did.
It's a slickly made production, and it played to ladies' clubs and such. Someone who used to work as a projectionist got five pounds for showing this. It added up in those days, both in the bank and in votes.
