Gpo Film Unit Filmes

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Short documentary about a trawler fishing for hake.

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...

A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail.

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

Experimental GPO publicity film extolling the virtues of the telegram service.

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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