Movies: Gpo Film Unit

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the overnight run from Euston, London to Glasgow....

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....

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

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

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 sorting, transporting and delivering the postcard in question....

Trade Tattoo went even further than Rainbow Dance in its manipulation of the Gasparcolor process. The original black and white footage consisted of outtakes from GPO Film Unit documentaries such as Night Mail. Lye transformed this footage in what has...

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

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

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

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

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC....

The organisation of medical services in Britain during the Second World War....

Short documentary about weather forecasting, emphasising the importance of the GPO's telecommunications systems....

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have children; the Potts are unconventional and unhappy, without children....

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends well, but with the moral that correspondents should get the address right....

A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail....

Wartime morale-boosting propaganda short, looking at the greatness of Britain and the efforts of all to preserve her power and integrity....

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 the announcement......

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows....