The School for Postmen
Synopsis
Three country postmen take a class where they learn how to go down a hill by bike, pedal more quickly, and how to deliver and collect mail, the goal being to speed up their delivery rounds to deliver letters to the mail plane. Distracted, nonchalant, his body upright and rigid, one of the postmen sets off on his round with a boom. His overflowing imagination and his zeal will not however prevent him from taking his good time. He'll stop at the bar to dance a few steps. Will he be in time to hand over the mail to the pilot?
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Director (1)
Actors (2)
Production and distribution (2)
- Executive Producer : Cady-Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Specta Films C.E.P.E.C. - Les Films de Mon Oncle, Carlotta Films, STUDIOCANAL
Full credits (8)
- Executive Producer : Fred Orain
- Screenwriter : Jacques Tati
- Director of Photography : Louis Félix
- Music Composer : Jean Yatove
- Assistant Director : Henri Marquet
- Editor : Marcel Moreau
- Costume designer : Jacques Cottin
- Assistant Operator : Jean Quilici
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Burlesque comedy
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1946
- Runtime : 15 min
- Visa number : 4658
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
- Rating restrictions : None
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The School for Postmen is a short film drawn from one of the preliminary sketches for Jour de fête by Jacques Tati. The screenplay was written in Sainte-Sévère sur Indre, where Tati settled with his friend Henri Marquet, and where he would later make Jour de fête.
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