Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

Where he goes, he doesn't need luggage... A very talkative traveler settles in the only wagon occupied by a man with a strange diction. The train is...

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...

The production of King George V's Silver Jubilee (1910-1935) special postage stamp, and a brief dramatised history of the development of the penny...

The first behind-the-scenes documentary in the film industry, from the making of a camera (Debrie) to studio shooting and directing, including...

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

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...

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...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

How long-distance telephone calls are made, from the UK to the USA. We see operators, miles of wires, and the amplification of voice transmitted...

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

Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from.

The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military...

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

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

Literary adaptation: A female musician in Asia's tropics escapes from harassers' advances to an island where a timid man has retreated. Later when 3...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

A French-language Free French propaganda short made in wartime London: Germaine Sablon performs three resistance songs—most notably the first...

The laying of underground telephone cables.

A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.