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  1. Night Mail (Remastered and Restored) (1936)

    Director
    Harry Watt; Basil Wright
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 24 minutes (BFI + 92 minutes extras)), £15.99 (BFI) £19.99 (Panamint)

    One of the most critically acclaimed and iconic films produced within the British documentary movement, NIGHT MAIL tells the story of the travelling post office from Euston to Glasgow and the men who worked...

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  2. Love on the Wing (1939 Video)

    Director
    Norman McLaren
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. st. Dufaycolor. 4 min.

    An early colour animation film by Norman McLaren. By using a ‘squiggle’ which is under constant metamorphasis into three characters, McLaren creates a tale of love as a means of promoting the then...

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  3. Night Mail / Terminus (1995)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, VHS (PAL, 54 minutes ), £10.99

    Compilation of two classic British documentary films, NIGHT MAIL and TERMINUS. [See individual titles for synopsis.]

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  4. N or Nw (1937 Video)

    Director
    Len Lye
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 7 min.

    Len Lye’s first non-abstract film. The story concerns a girl who is on the point of breaking off her engagement when the wrongly addressed letter of apology from her fiancé finally arrives. The theme is...

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  5. Hpo, The: Heavenly Post Office (1938 Video)

    Director
    Lotte Reiniger
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. dufaycolour. 4 min.

    The Post Office slogan at the time was: ‘It’s heaven to receive a greetings telegram. Be an angel and send one!' Lotte Reiniger translated this into a silhouette film that did much to promote telegram...

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  6. Britain at Bay (Video)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Special loan (film -IWM), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 14 min.

    Nazi Germany had swallowed Czechoslovakia, invaded Poland and Norway, overrun Holland and Belgium. ‘The future of the whole civilised world rests on the defence of Britain’. The film was probably edited...

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  7. Trade Tattoo (1937 Video)

    Director
    Len Lye
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. Technicolor. 6 min.

    A mixture of live action submerged in a sea of abstract patterns and line movements. The underlying theme is that to maintain the rhythm of workaday Britain one must post early in the day. Music played by...

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  8. Interview with Ralph Bond (1988 Video)

    Director
    Alan G Burton
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Preview, Videocassette. VHS. col. 103 min.

    An interview with the veteran documentary film-maker Ralph Bond. Ralph Bond was active in the formation of the Workers Film Society and speaks of the distribution of Soviet films in the early 1930s. He was...

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  9. 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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  10. Britain Can Take It (1940 Video)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings; Harry Watt
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 9 min.

    'The film was a collaboration by the whole unit. Everything else stopped for it’ Harry Watt has said. ‘I think I wrote the script. At least I wrote it down, but let us say it was a communal script. It...

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