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  1. Hpo, The: Heavenly Post Office (1938 Video)

    Director
    Lotte Reiniger
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. dufaycolour. 4 min.

    The Post Office slogan at the time was: ‘It’s heaven to receive a greetings telegram. Be an angel and send one!' Lotte Reiniger translated this into a silhouette film that did much to promote telegram...

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  2. Britain at Bay (Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Special loan (film -IWM), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 14 min.

    Nazi Germany had swallowed Czechoslovakia, invaded Poland and Norway, overrun Holland and Belgium. ‘The future of the whole civilised world rests on the defence of Britain’. The film was probably edited...

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  3. Trade Tattoo (1937 Video)

    Director
    Len Lye
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. Technicolor. 6 min.

    A mixture of live action submerged in a sea of abstract patterns and line movements. The underlying theme is that to maintain the rhythm of workaday Britain one must post early in the day. Music played by...

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  4. Interview with Ralph Bond (1988 Video)

    Director
    Alan G Burton
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 103 min.

    An interview with the veteran documentary film-maker Ralph Bond. Ralph Bond was active in the formation of the Workers Film Society and speaks of the distribution of Soviet films in the early 1930s. He was...

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  5. Islanders, The (1939 Video)

    Director
    Maurice Harvey; Stewart McAllister
    Producer
    J.B. Holmes
    Subject
    Anthropology; History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 17 min.

    A documentary showing life on Eriskay, Guernsey and Inner Farne islands linked to Britain by means of the Post Office. Music by Darius Milhaud.

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  6. Britain Can Take It (1940 Video)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings; Harry Watt
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 9 min.

    'The film was a collaboration by the whole unit. Everything else stopped for it’ Harry Watt has said. ‘I think I wrote the script. At least I wrote it down, but let us say it was a communal script. It...

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  7. Fairy of the Phone, The (1936 Video)

    Director
    William Coldstream
    Producer
    Basil Wright
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 13 min.

    A comedy with musical sequences including an opening song featuring a chorus of telephonists. The script was based on page 6 of the 1936 London telephone directory - instructions to subscribers on how to use...

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  8. Rainbow Dance (1936 Video)

    Director
    Len Lye
    Producer
    Basil Wright
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. Gasparcolour. 4 min.

    A mixture of live action an animation in which the actions of a live dancer combine with shimmering colour fantasies to illustrate the advantages of saving. The message is: ‘The Post Office Savings Bank...

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  9. London Pride (2006)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 65 minutes), £19.99

    A collection of films showing the effect of the blitz on London and its people, and the plans for the post-war regeneration of the City. Includes: LONDON CAN TAKE IT, THE PROUD CITY, LONDON AIRPORT, MOVING...

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  10. Men of the Lightship (1940 Video)

    Director
    David MacDonald
    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 25 min.

    'Year in, year out, all round our coasts, the beam of the lightship shines through the night and its siren pierces the fog banks. Light and fog signals reach vessels of all nations equally, and for three...

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