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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Christmas Under Fire (1941 Video)

    Director
    Harry Watt
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 10 min.

    Quentin Reynolds’ second film despatch from London to America shows Christmas 1940, the year of the Blitz. By this time Ian Dalrymple was head of the GPO Film Unit which had been renamed the Crown Film...

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Early Cinema Commercials: Animation (1991 Video)

    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 27 min., 1999 sale: £15.45 (inclusive)

    Compilation of six short films from the GPO Film Unit featuring some early revolutionary work by noted animators Len Lye, Lotte Reiniger and Norman McLaren. [See individual titles for synopsis details.]

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  8. Story of an Air CommuniquÉ, The (1940 Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 7 min.

    Made for the Ministry of Information to show how accurately the figures for destroyed enemy aircraft were compiled and checked. The film has no technical credits apart from that of the GPO Film Unit itself....

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  9. North Sea (1939 Video)

    Director
    Harry Watt
    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 31 min.

    Features Aberdeen deep-sea fishing trawlermen and shows how the ship-to-shore radio service safeguards the lives of seamen. Reconstructs one of the many incidents which occured in the big gale of 1937,...

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  10. Addressing the Nation: Gpo Film Unit Volume 1 (2008)

    Director
    Alberto Cavalcanti; Len Lye; Humphrey Jennings; Basil Wright
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £24.99

    The first of three deluxe double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit on DVD for the first time. The complete collection includes legendary filmmakers such as John Grierson, Len...

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