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Britain at War: The First Days (1991 Video)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 55 min., 2004 sale: £11.99 (+p&p)

Compilation of three films from the GPO Film Unit that illustrate the effect of the first two years of war on the British people. [See individual titles for synopsis details.]

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Mony a Pickle (1939 Video)

Producer

Alberto Cavalcanti

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 11 min.

A slightly tongue-in-cheedk comedy on the theme of thrift, which was made for the Scottish Post Office Savings Bank. It is divided into an introduction and five short episodes, the most ambitious of which...

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Gpo Story, The (1983 Film, Video)

Subject

Film & television production; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the GPO Film Unit. Tells the story of the Unit from its beginnings with the Empire Marketing Board, through to wartime documentaries of the Crown Film Unit....

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King’s Stamp, The (1935 Video)

Director

William Coldstream

Subject

History; Technology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 20 min.

Shows the designing, lithographing and printing of the King George V Silver Jubilee stamp. A short history of postage stamps is dramatised with scenes about Rowland Hill and the reactions of the general...

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Britain in the Thirties: Vol 1 (1991 Video)

aka: Thirties Britain: Volume 1

Subject

History; Social sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 74 min., 2004 sale: £11.99 (i+ p&p)

Compilation of five films from the GPO Film Unit that vividly depict society in the 1930s. [See individual titles for synopsis details.]

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News for the Navy (1937 Video)

Director

Norman McLaren

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 10 min.

The story concerns Evelyn, who sends a newsaper to her fiancé Bert Higgins AB, who has gone to sea on the ‘HMS Incredible’. On her mother’s advice she risks a penny-ha’penny stamp and addresses the...

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Britain in the Thirties: Vol 2 (1991 Video)

aka: Thirties Britain: Vol 2

Subject

History; Social sciences

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 86 min., 2004 sale: £11.99 (+ p&p)

Compilation of four films from the GPO Film Unit that vividly depict British society in the 1930s. [See individual titles for synopsis details.]

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Britain at War: Under Fire (1991 Video)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 55 min., 2004 sale: £11.99 (+p&p)

Compilation of five films from the GPO Film Unit that illustrate the effect of the first two years of war on the British people. [See individual titles for synopsis details.]

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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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John Atkins Saves Up (1934 Video)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 18 min.

The clerk John Atkins puts five shillings into the Post Office Savings Bank every week of his life. He is a very careful fellow who keeps his summer clothes in mothballs and never forgets to shut the gate...

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