Gpo Film Unit Movies

Shows the workings of Britain's Air Post service.

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...

Live action and animated toys are used to illustrate the importance of cleanliness and eating good food.

Humphrey Jennings’s wartime short rallies Britain’s countryside, showing fields ploughed up from fallow, seed sown, and crops raised on...

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

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

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

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

Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime...

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

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...

The picture shows the industrialization of England, and the measures taken to clean up afterwards: a lyrical counterpart of Men In Danger, and a...

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....

“The preparations made by the GPO to enable the press and the BBC to cover a major sporting event, in this instance, the Manx T.T. motor-cycle...

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

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

Combining a whimsical romantic tale, practical information about the Post Office Savings Bank, and a gently experimental film-making technique, this...

Documentary about the construction of telephone lines.

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.