The White Bus

Adapting Shelagh Delaney’s story about a young woman who returns from London to her northern hometown, Anderson anticipates his subsequent trilogy with this sharply pointed satire on English provincialism – one that mixes moments of realism and fantasy in disarmingly inventive style. Screening with Anderson’s Green and Pleasant Land (1955), a selection of his 1960s TV commercials and an extract of Anderson in conversation with filmmaker (and then head of BFI Production) Mamoun Hassan.

Unfortunately, the 35mm of The White Bus is missing the opening and closing credits and a few seconds from the opening shot. The short colour segments appear faded, but the majority of the film, in black and white, is crisp and sharp. The print is largely in excellent condition, and this is a great chance to see the film on film as it was originally meant to be seen.

Screening with:

Green and Pleasant Land

Total running time 68min