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Shows the workings of Britain's Air Post service.
Air Post
A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
London Can Take It!
Humphrey Jennings’s wartime short rallies Britain’s countryside, showing fields ploughed up from fallow, seed sown, and crops raised on...
Spring Offensive
Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.
The Song of Ceylon
The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs
Combining a whimsical romantic tale, practical information about the Post Office Savings Bank, and a gently experimental film-making technique, this...
John Atkins Saves Up
A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...
BBC: The Voice of Britain
The picture shows the industrialization of England, and the measures taken to clean up afterwards: a lyrical counterpart of Men In Danger, and a...
Health of a Nation
Short GPO documentary, about mail that is sent out of the country to Switzerland.
Who Writes to Switzerland?
A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...
Mony a Pickle
Live action and animated toys are used to illustrate the importance of cleanliness and eating good food.
Oh Whiskers
Experimental animation produced by GPO to explain telephone systems to the public.
How the Telephone Works
A film made by the British General Post Office (GPO) in 1933, promoting the automation of telephone exchanges.
The Coming of the Dial
As the subtitle of the film suggests - The Story of a Post Card from Manchester to Graffham - this journey is very much focused on the process of...
Penny Journey
How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent...
The Glorious Sixth of June
Short documentary showing the workings of a large London sorting office.
6.30 Collection
Sponsored by the Ministry of Information and shown as part of cinema programmes throughout the Second World War, this short film takes place halfway...
The Story of an Air Communiqué
Trade Tattoo went even further than Rainbow Dance in its manipulation of the Gasparcolor process. The original black and white footage consisted of...
Trade Tattoo
This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....
Message from Geneva
Shows the production of the London telephone directory.
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