We Live in Two Worlds : Gpo Film Unit Volume 2
- Synopsis
- The second of three double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit produced between 1936-1938. The collection is not just important in cinematic terms, but provides a valuable and fascinating insight into 1930s Britain. Created in 1933 out of the ashes of the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit, the GPO Film Unit was one of the most remarkable creative institutions that Britain has produced. A hotbed of creative energy and talent, it provided a spring board to many of the best-known and critically acclaimed figures in the British Documentary Movement, including John Grierson, Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Wright and Harry Watt, alongside innovators and experimentalists such as Len Lye and Norman McLaren. Their work embraced public information films, drama-documentary, social reportage, animation, advertising and many points in between.
Contents:Disc One
Rainbow Dance (Len Lye, 1936)
The Saving of Bill Blewitt (Harry Watt, 1936)
Calendar of the Year (Evelyn Spice, 1936)
The Fairy of the Phone (William Coldstream, 1936)
Night Mail (Harry Watt and Basil Wright - uncredited - 1936)
Roadways (William Coldstream, Stuart Legg, 1937)
Trade Tattoo (Len Lye, 1937)
Big Money (Harry Watt, 1937)
We Live in Two Worlds (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1937)
N or NW (Len Lye, 1937)
Disc Two
A Job in a Million (Evelyn Spice, 1937)
Book Bargain (Norman McLaren, 1937)
What’s On Today (R.Q. McNaughton, 1938)
Love on the Wing (Norman McLaren, 1938)
The Horsey Mail (Pat Jackson, 1938)
The H.P.O. (Lotte Reiniger, 1938)
News for the Navy (Norman McLaren, 1938)
Mony a Pickle (Director of Sequence - uncredited - Norman McLaren, Alberto Cavalcanti, Richard Massingham, 1938)
North Sea (Harry Watt, 1938)
Penny Journey - The Story of a Post Card from Manchester to Graffham (Humphrey Jennings, 1938)
The Tocher (A film ballet by Lotte Reiniger, 1938)
God’s Chillun (Words by W.H. Auden, music by Benjamin Britten, 1938)
The discs are presented in a box with a 98-page bound book containing introductory essays, film notes and selected biographies. - Series
- General Post Office Film Unit Collection, The: Volume 2
- Language
- English
- Country
- Great Britain
- Year of release
- 2009
- Year of production
- 1936-1938
- Notes
- Vol 1 is entitled ADDRESSING THE NATION and Vol 3, to be released later in 2009 will be IF WAR SHOULD COME
- Subjects
- Film studies; History
- Keywords
- animation films; archive films; GPO
Credits
- Director
- Alberto Cavalcanti; Basil Wright; Evelyn Spice; Harry Watt; Humphrey Jennings; Len Lye; Lotte Reiniger; Norman McLaren; Pat Jackson; Richard Massingham; Stuart Legg; William Coldstream
Distribution Formats
- Type
- DVD
- Format
- Region 2 PAL
- Price
- £24.99
- Availability
- Sale
- Duration/Size
- 257 minutes
- Year
- 2009
Production Company
- Name
GPO Film Unit
Distributor
- Name
BFI Video
- video.films@bfi.org.uk
- Web
- http://www.bfi.org.uk External site opens in new window
- Phone
- 020 7957 8957
- Fax
- 020 7957 8968
- Address
- 21 Stephen Street
London
W1T 1LN
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