Gpo Film Unit Filmes

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

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

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

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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.

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

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.

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

A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail.

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

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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

The building and launch of a new long-wave radio transmitter - just as the TV age is about to be born.

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

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

Police work during World War II in Britain.

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