Gpo Film Unit Movies

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

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.

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

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

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

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

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

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

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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

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

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

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings. The GPO Film Unit was a subdivision of the UK General Post Office. The unit was established in 1933, taking on...

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

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

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

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

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.