Gpo Film Unit Movies

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

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

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

“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...

Sponsored by the Ministry of Information and shown as part of cinema programmes throughout the Second World War, this short film takes place halfway...

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

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

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

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

Shows the workings of Britain's Air Post service.

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...

Experimental animation produced by GPO to explain telephone systems to the public.

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

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

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

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

Short GPO documentary, about mail that is sent out of the country to Switzerland.

Produced shortly before the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, If War Should Come was one of the last films to be produced by the GPO Film...

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...

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