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The picture shows the industrialization of England, and the measures taken to clean up afterwards: a lyrical counterpart of Men In Danger, and a...
Health of a Nation
Combining a whimsical romantic tale, practical information about the Post Office Savings Bank, and a gently experimental film-making technique, this...
John Atkins Saves Up
Shows the workings of Britain's Air Post service.
Air Post
Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.
The HPO
“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...
What’s on Today
“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...
Daily Round
This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...
Night Mail
Shows the production of the London telephone directory.
Book Bargain
A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...
BBC: The Voice of Britain
Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.
The Song of Ceylon
Sponsored by the Ministry of Information and shown as part of cinema programmes throughout the Second World War, this short film takes place halfway...
The Story of an Air Communiqué
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...
Cargoes
Short documentary showing the workings of a large London sorting office.
6.30 Collection
Short GPO documentary, about mail that is sent out of the country to Switzerland.
Who Writes to Switzerland?
The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military...
We Live in Two Worlds
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...
Penny Journey
This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....
Message from Geneva
The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...
Pett and Pott: A Fairy Story of the Suburbs
Experimental animation produced by GPO to explain telephone systems to the public.
How the Telephone Works
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...
If War Should Come
