Gpo Film Unit Movies

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

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

Shows the workings of Britain's Air Post service.

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

“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...

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

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

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

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

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

Sponsored by the Ministry of Information and shown as part of cinema programmes throughout the Second World War, this short film takes place halfway...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...