Person
Geoffrey Jones
Directing · 1931–2005 · London, England, UK
Biography
Geoffrey Jones (27 November 1931 – 21 June 2005) was a British documentary film director and editor, noted for his contributions to the genre of the industrial film, and in particular British Transport Films. Jones's first major work for British Transport Films was the 1963 film Snow, an eight-minute short demonstrating how the railway network coped with the 1963 "Big Freeze". Noted for its fast-paced editing and unusual photography, the film received 14 major awards upon its release and an Oscar nomination in 1965. The success of this film led to his longer 1967 short Rail, which contrasted the final days of the steam engine with the emergence of diesel and electric power on the West and South Coast lines. This was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award in 1968. His third and final film for BTF was Locomotion, completed in 1975, a history of the railways consisting of over 400 archive artworks, films and objects edited to music.
Known for

Rail
Director

Snow
Director

Locomotion
Director

Trinidad & Tobago
Director

Shell Spirit
Director
A Chair-a-plane Flamenco
Director

Seasons Project
Director
A Chair-a-plane Kwela
Director
This Is Shell
Director
Filmography
- 2005A Chair-a-plane FlamencoDirector
- 2005A Chair-a-plane KwelaDirector
- 2005Seasons ProjectDirector
- 1975LocomotionDirector
- 1970This Is ShellDirector
- 1967RailDirector
- 1964Trinidad & TobagoDirector
- 1963Shell SpiritDirector
- 1963SnowDirector
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