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A documentary showing life on Eriskay, Guernsey and Inner Farne islands linked to Britain by means of the Post Office. Music by Darius Milhaud.
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...
During the ominously perfect summer that preceded the outbreak of the World War 2 men are laying an underground telephone cable in the Chilterns from Amersham to Aylesbury, about 18 miles. Along the route...
A slightly tongue-in-cheedk comedy on the theme of thrift, which was made for the Scottish Post Office Savings Bank. It is divided into an introduction and five short episodes, the most ambitious of which...
The Meadowhead School football team lose their ball immediately before their match with the council school, Bromford. They get the Bromford team to bring a ball with them by sending a nine-word telegram...
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,...
Showing how workers in three industries (steel, cotton and coal) spend their spare time, this film is famous as the first intimation of Humphrey Jennings’ unique style. Jennings had been involved in mass...
When the sea wall at Winterton in East Norfolk gives way and Horsey village and many outlying farms become islands in the water, it is more difficult for postman Claude Simmonds to make his daily round. Van...
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...
A fairy-tale ballet silhouette as a means of promoting the Post Office Savings Bank. Music consists of Rossini themes arranged by Benjamin Britten.
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