Most Viewed From GPO Film Unit

Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.

Genre: Animation

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This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Arthur Clark

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lionel Wendt

Rainbow Dance is a 1936 British animated film released by the GPO Film Unit. This is Lye's second film. It uses the Gasparcolor process.

Genre: Music

Cast: Rupert Doone

A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Quentin Reynolds

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: W.H. Auden

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

Genre: Documentary

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Short documentary showing the workings of a large London sorting office.

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Documentary

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An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Trade Tattoo went even further than Rainbow Dance in its manipulation of the Gasparcolor process. The original black and white footage consisted of...

Genre: Animation

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Wartime morale-boosting propaganda short, looking at the greatness of Britain and the efforts of all to preserve her power and integrity.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: J. B. Priestley

Humphrey Jennings' first film as a director, a brief overview of the British postal service.

Genre: Documentary

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Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Dwight Godwin

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bruce Winston

A short GPO documentary showing how undersea telephone cables are repaired.

Genre: Documentary

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The organisation of medical services in Britain during the Second World War.

Genre: Documentary

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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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Humphrey Jennings

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

Genre: Animation

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Genre: Documentary

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