Railway Artist (1960)

M/Ss of railway artist Terence Cuneo holding sketchbooks and standing next to a railway track, beckoning forward a diesel freight train. He sits on a seat astride one of the tracks and begins to sketch. Freight trains are behind him, also a station lookout man holding furled flags under his arm with a small trumpet hanging round his neck. M/S showing the back of TC and the front of the train clearly named 'Condor'. The commentator says “officially described on the London Midland Region of British Railways as a 1200 HP Type 2 Co-Bo diesel-electric locomotive“. High angle showing TC sketching. C/Us of pencil sketch, various of TC sketching and observing the train, a box of pencils on a railway sleeper. Commentator says TC has been commissioned by the railway authorities to paint the 'Condor' for a poster. C/U of the lookout man who spots a train coming and blows his horn to alert TC, then beckons him to come away from the track. M/S of TC folding up his seat and walking to the other side of the t