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Len Lye pioneered the technique of painting directly on to the film negative, and this is the first film that he brought to John Grierson. Grierson liked the film and told him to go away and paint the new...
Shows the designing, lithographing and printing of the King George V Silver Jubilee stamp. A short history of postage stamps is dramatised with scenes about Rowland Hill and the reactions of the general...
Documentary. Celebrated impressionist study of the work of the BBC. Includes scenes of a rehearsal for a radio broadcast of Macbeth, featuring the three witches, one of whom is played by documentary film...
An experimental propaganda film made to encourage people to use the telephone. Equally it is a satire on suburban life and middle-class respectability. The film experiments with various sound techniques -...
Shows a trawler out fishing on the Viking Bank. ‘In the thirties we were all in it together,' Grierson said. ‘We could all edit well. We could all write well. There was no part we couldn’t do, even...
The clerk John Atkins puts five shillings into the Post Office Savings Bank every week of his life. He is a very careful fellow who keeps his summer clothes in mothballs and never forgets to shut the gate...
The traditional customs of the island of Ceylon are contrasted with the demands of western commerce. In four parts: 1) THE BUDDHA, deals with the legendary coming of Buddha to free the natives from their...
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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