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  1. Pett and Pott (1934 Film)

    Director
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An experimental propaganda film made to encourage people to use the telephone. Equally it is a satire on suburban life and middle-class respectability. The film experiments with various sound techniques -...

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  2. City, The 3 (1939 Video)

    Director
    Ralph Elton
    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w?. 19 min.

    Sir Charles Bressey talks about the Bressey Report and urges its implementation. The film also illustrates the growth of london since the late 19th century, the work of the ministry of Transport Research...

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  3. Roadways (1937 Film, Video)

    Director
    William Coldstream; Stuart Legg
    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Traces the histroy of transport with particular emphasis on the heavy growth of road traffic from 1918 until the late 1930s. The GPO, itself a major user, acknowledged its responsibilites and expressed its...

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  4. Coal Face (1935 Video)

    Director
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire (film - BFI), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 10 min.

    Coalmining in Britain in the 1930s - conditions and state of the industry in the economy at that time. Set to verse by W H Auden, with music by Benjamin Britten.

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  5. North Sea (1939 Video)

    Director
    Harry Watt
    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 31 min.

    Features Aberdeen deep-sea fishing trawlermen and shows how the ship-to-shore radio service safeguards the lives of seamen. Reconstructs one of the many incidents which occured in the big gale of 1937,...

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  6. 30s Britain Volume 2: North Sea (2006)

    Director
    John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 86 minutes), £12.99

    Collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘North Sea’ (1938) directed by Harry Watt. An Aberdeen trawler in trouble gets assistance from Wick coastguard radio station, operated by the GPO. The first...

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  7. Spare Time (1939 Video)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings
    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Subject
    Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 14 min.

    Showing how workers in three industries (steel, cotton and coal) spend their spare time, this film is famous as the first intimation of Humphrey Jennings’ unique style. Jennings had been involved in mass...

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  8. First Days, The (1939 Film, Video)

    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    This earliest of notable British wartime documentaries was a collaborative effort in the direction of which both Harry Watt and Humphrey Jennings played parts. The editing and the use of sound represents the...

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  9. Change for the Better? A: Britain in the 1930’s, (1994 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 82 min., 1995 sale: £15.00 (inclusive)

    Video-based teaching pack looking at British life in the 1930s through archive film, textual data and personal accounts. Contains contemporary archive footage from the GPO Film Unit. The five units cover...

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  10. Saving of Bill Blewitt, The (1937 Video)

    Director
    Harry Watt
    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 25 min.

    A fiction film, made in the documentary style, about two fishermen whose boat is wrecked but who manage to save up enough to buy another. Harry Watt has described how he was told to make a film about saving,...

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