Gpo Film Unit Movies
- 1935

Coal Face
Coal Face6.0881935HD
1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.
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- 1937

Trade Tattoo
Trade Tattoo5.91937HD
Trade Tattoo went even further than Rainbow Dance in its manipulation of the Gasparcolor process. The original black and white footage consisted of...
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- 1936

Night Mail
Night Mail6.11936HD
This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...
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- 1938

Penny Journey
Penny Journey5.51938HD
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...
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- 1943

Post Haste
Post Haste01943HD
A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail.
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- 1934

Post-Haste
Post-Haste4.91934HD
Humphrey Jennings' first film as a director, a brief overview of the British postal service.
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- 1944

Christmas Wishes
Christmas Wishes01944HD
Animated short from Halas and Batchelor encouraging the British public to post early for Christmas.
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- 1934

Granton Trawler
Granton Trawler4.91934HD
Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".
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- 1937

Daily Round
Daily Round01937HD
“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...
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- 1940

War and Order
War and Order01940HD
Police work during World War II in Britain.
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- 1940

Spring Offensive
Spring Offensive6.51940HD
Humphrey Jennings’s wartime short rallies Britain’s countryside, showing fields ploughed up from fallow, seed sown, and crops raised on...
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- 1938

Mony a Pickle
Mony a Pickle3.51938HD
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...
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- 1935

A Colour Box
A Colour Box61935HD
Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.
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- 1935

Sixpenny Telegram
Sixpenny Telegram01935HD
Experimental GPO publicity film extolling the virtues of the telegram service.
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- 1935

BBC: The Voice of Britain
BBC: The Voice of Britain01935HD
A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...
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- 1939

Cargoes
Cargoes5.51939HD
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...
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- 1936

Calendar of the Year
Calendar of the Year01936HD
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- 1934

The Story of the Wheel
The Story of the Wheel5.51934HD
The history of wheels, roads and vehicles from cavemen to the coming of steam.
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- 1939

The Chiltern Country
The Chiltern Country01939HD
“The rolling hills and wide valleys of the Chilterns are given centre stage in this travelogue aimed at boosting tourism … The Chilterns...
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- 1945

Myra Hess
Myra Hess31945HD
A concert short spotlighting Dame Myra Hess performing the first movement of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor,...
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