Gpo Film Unit Movies

Shows the workings of Britain's Air Post service.

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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

Live action and animated toys are used to illustrate the importance of cleanliness and eating good food.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

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

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

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

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...

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

“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...

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

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

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...