Geoffrey Jones’ Snow, filmed during the harsh British winter of 1963, cuts together the narrative of a steam locomotive’s journey, corresponding to the incrementally speeding beat of a drum and guitar-based musical track. The red of a signal arm contrasts with surrounding snowbound whiteness, and shovel-wielding gangs of workmen in caps and scarves. Passing landscape appears as a fleeting wave from a playground; snow-stranded cars and the airborne freedom of flocking birds. Close-in footage of piston action; the lightening approach of a tunnel’s end and increasing abstraction of speed-blurred fences and foliage build as the soundtrack gains momentum. Filmed from the driver’s cab, parallel train footage is rapidly intercut. Individual images of driver; railway worker and newspaper-reading passenger are interwoven with a rapid cascade of journey-based imagery, until the work ends on the wave of a red flag.