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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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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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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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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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Post Office in the Thirties, The: Providing a Service (1991 Video)

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 88 min., 2004 sale: £11.99 (+p&p)

Compilation of eight short films from the GPO Film Unit showing the range of services the Post Office provided in the 1930s and how these were promoted. [See individual titles for synopsis details.]

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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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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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Colour Box, A (1935 Video)

Director

Len Lye

Subject

Film & television production; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. Dufaycolor. 4 min.

Len Lye pioneered the technique of painting directly on to the film negative, and this is the first film that he brought to John Grierson. Grierson liked the film and told him to go away and paint the new...

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30s Britain Volume 1: Granton Trawler (2006)

Director

John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 75 minutes), £12.99

Collection of five films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘Granton Trawler’ (1934) directed by John Grierson. About a trawler fishing on the Viking Bank. ‘Coal Face’ (1935) directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. An...

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