Learning on ScreenNews for the Navy
- Synopsis
- The story concerns Evelyn, who sends a newsaper to her fiancé Bert Higgins AB, who has gone to sea on the ‘HMS Incredible’. On her mother’s advice she risks a penny-ha’penny stamp and addresses the package to the ship c/o the GPO, London. The film follows the package in the care of the Post Office from the letter box in Mount Pleasant and along the GPO’s own underground electric railway to the Foreign Section a mile away. It reaches Bert’s ship in Bermuda where he seems more than happy to pay the extra penny-ha’penny due. The film shows how packages were collected, sorted and despatgched in Lndon for destinations abroad. This is one of the first films that Norman McLaren directed at the GPO before he specialised in animation.
- Series
- Post Office in the Thirties, The: Providing a Service
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Medium
- Video; Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 10 min.
- Year of production
- 1937
- Availability
- Sale
- Notes
- See: THE POST OFFICE IN THE THIRTIES: PROVIDING A SERVICE for availability on compilation videocassette.
- Subjects
- History
- Keywords
- postal services
Credits
- Director
- Norman McLaren
- Contributor
- F Gamage; H E ‘Chick’ Fowle
- Cast
Evelyn Corbett J F Howard
Production Company
- Name
GPO Film Unit
Distributor
- Name
Post Office Film & Video Library
- poes@edist.co.uk
- Phone
- 01795 426465
- Fax
- 01795 474871
- Address
- c/o Post Office Education Services
PO Box 145
Sittingbourne
Kent
ME10 1NH - Notes
- Contact: Barry Wiles
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