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  1. Our Christmas Mail Sorted at Mount Pleasant

    Date released
    18 Dec 1930
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    80A
    NoS ID
    002773
    Story no
    1 / 5

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Our Christmas Mail Is Sorted. DESCRIPTION: To Mount Pleasant come and see GPO at work. SHOTLIST: Sacks of mail and parcels being taken in. Elevated shot of sorters throwing the parcels...

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  2. Post Much Earlier This Christmas

    Date released
    2 Dec 1940
    Series name
    Pathe Gazette
    Issue no
    40/97
    NoS ID
    098419
    Story no
    2 / 7
    Extras
    1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

    Showing the difficulties of a postman’s job in wartime. Postman arrives with mail to find the house has been bombed and its occupants no longer there, then he goes to a street where there is an unexploded...

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  3. 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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  4. Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Tough Assignment for Allied Troops

    Date released
    16 Mar 1942
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    667
    NoS ID
    012179
    Story no
    2 / 4

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: US Army Signal Corps in Iceland. DESCRIPTION: American and British Troops based in Iceland have to endure the isolation and icy weather. SHOTLIST: Scenes on main docks in Iceland. Mail...

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  5. World Film News: Mail Rockets

    Date released
    18 Aug 1952
    Series name
    British Movietone News
    Issue no
    1211
    NoS ID
    017990
    Story no
    6 / 9

    MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: World Film News - Mail Rockets. DESCRIPTION: Near Oldenburg, a German inventor has been trying out what he calls Mail Rockets for use between the mainland and small islands. SHOTLIST:...

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  6. Night Mail/West Highland (2004)

    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 55 minutes), £19.99

    A compilation of two classic films on steam trains

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  7. Daily Mail moves from Fleet Street (1989)

    Genre
    Interview

    Rodney Bennett interviews Sir David English, editor of The Daily Mail, about the newspaper’s move from its premises in Fleet Street, east London to new offices in Kensington. He comments on the effect that...

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  8. Princess Diana overdose revelation (1992)

    Genre
    Interview

    Interview with Daily Mail columnist Nigel Dempster about newspaper reports Princess Diana, Princess of Wales once took an overdose of pills. The Daily Mail says it happened in 1986 after a row with Prince...

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  9. Lady Prior on being mugged (1987)

    Genre
    Interview

    Lady Prior on her recent mugging and denying reports in the Daily Mail that secret cabinet information was lost in the attack. Female interviewer not identified.

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  10. Sorting office on last posting day before Xmas (1995)

    Genre
    News report; Interview

    Jeff Collins reports from one of London’s main sorting offices at Paddington where Royal Mail staff are having to cope with the extra Christmas mail on the last posting day for first class letters. The...

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