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  1. Mask of Nippon, The (1942 Video)

    Director
    Margaret Palmer
    Producer
    Stuart Legg
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 21 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

    An anti-Japanese propaganda film produced during World War 2 in the wake of Pearl Harbor. Incorporates contemporary newsreel film.

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  2. Wealth of a Nation (1938 Film, Video)

    Director
    Donald Alexander
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Scotland’s industry and community involvement in the changing economic landscape. A film made for screening at the 1938 Empire Exhibition in Glasgow.

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  3. 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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  4. Unseen Enemies (1974)

    Director
    Michael Clarke
    Producer
    Stuart Legg
    Subject
    Development studies; Medical sciences
    Distribution
    Out of distribution, Videocasette. U-matic, VHS. col. 27 min.

    Shows the widespread suffering due to endemic disease, using as examples the tropical diseases malaria, filariasis and trachoma. The sources of the diseases and the measures used to eliminate them, both...

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  5. 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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  6. Night Mail - The Gpo Story (2013)

    Director
    Harry Watt; Basil Wright
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 126 minutes), £20.41

    This release includes THE GPO STORY (1986), BBC Arena’s tribute to the Unit featuring many of the original filmmakers, including Harry Watt, Basil Wright, Stuart Legg, Edgar Anstey, Chick Fowle, Pat...

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  7. We Live in Two Worlds : Gpo Film Unit Volume 2 (2009)

    Director
    Len Lye; Harry Watt; Evelyn Spice; William Coldstream; Basil Wright; Stuart Legg; Alberto Cavalcanti; Norman McLaren; Lotte Reiniger; Pat Jackson; Humphrey Jennings; Richard Massingham
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 257 minutes), £24.99

    The second of three double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit produced between 1936-1938. The collection is not just important in cinematic terms, but provides a valuable and...

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