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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...
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...
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.
Not many employers in the 1930s offered a secure job with a pension at age sixty, so there was always a queue of boys hoping to become messengers at the Post Office. Proud to be among the successful...
Len Lye’s first non-abstract film. The story concerns a girl who is on the point of breaking off her engagement when the wrongly addressed letter of apology from her fiancé finally arrives. The theme is...
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...
A mixture of live action submerged in a sea of abstract patterns and line movements. The underlying theme is that to maintain the rhythm of workaday Britain one must post early in the day. Music played by...
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