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Air Mail Liner Disaster

Date released

22 Sep 1932

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

2244

NoS ID

385127

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: French cross-channel machine crashes in the ground of Selsdon Park, near Croydon.

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Mail Plane Tragedy

Date released

11 Apr 1930

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1988

NoS ID

384552

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: All that was left of German all-metal craft which crashed in flames just before dawn at Limpsfield, Surrey

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Activities in the Western Desert

Date released

7 Aug 1941

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

1154

NoS ID

146628

Story no

1 / 11

Army postal services in the east. British army teaches Arabs darts New aerodromes in the making Dawn patrol at work.

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MEN OF LETTERS

Date released

2 Jul 1928

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1803

NoS ID

387095

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Chinese postmen deliver the mail with a unique row-boat in which they use their feet with one of the oars.

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Speeding Up The Mails

Date released

8 Jul 1929

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1909

NoS ID

384170

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: New rail-run installed on ‘SS Bremen’ to allow airmail service out-of-port and to enable seaplanes to take-off from the liner’s deck.

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Water Postman

Date released

18 Oct 1964

Series name

Colour Pictorial

Issue no

512

NoS ID

121573

Story no

1 / 3

Extras

1 film clip

Pathe synopsis: Every morning a young postman sets out to deliver mail to the lonely people who live on islands in Poole Harbour. He delivers milk, bread and papers too, to Brownsea, Round and Furzey...

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Christmas Mail Gets to the Front

Date released

20 Dec 1944

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1441

NoS ID

039413

Story no

1 / 4

Extras

1 commentary sheet, 1 cameraman dope sheet, 1 ephemera, 1 shot list

Army and Navy postal services break all records delivering Christmas mail to fighting men.

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Lost Parcels

Date released

Oct 1971

Series name

Roundabout

Issue no

113

NoS ID

328057

Story no

3 / 5

COI synopsis: The Post Office Return Branch in Portsmouth, where postal detectives deal with badly addressed or lost mail.

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A State of General Election Exists

Date released

15 Oct 1931

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

123A

NoS ID

003267

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: A State of General Election Exists. DESCRIPTION: Postal workers air their grievances in mammoth parade through London to Hyde Park. Sub.1. Modern methods play big part in propaganda of...

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R. S. V. P.

Date released

23 Aug 1928

Series name

Gaumont Graphic

Issue no

1818

NoS ID

387210

Extras

1 film clip

NfO synopsis: Demonstration of a new aeroplane-mounted ‘pick-up’ device quickens up mail collections. Also a method of catapulting an airplane from the bow of a ship.

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