Gpo Film Unit Movies

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

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...

Shows the workings of Britain's Air Post service.

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...

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

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

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

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

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...

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...

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

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

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

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

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

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

A short film showing how the Teleprinter works.

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

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