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  1. Night Mail - The Gpo Story (2013)

    Director
    Harry Watt; Basil Wright
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 126 minutes), £20.41

    This release includes THE GPO STORY (1986), BBC Arena’s tribute to the Unit featuring many of the original filmmakers, including Harry Watt, Basil Wright, Stuart Legg, Edgar Anstey, Chick Fowle, Pat...

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  2. We Live in Two Worlds : Gpo Film Unit Volume 2 (2009)

    Director
    Len Lye; Harry Watt; Evelyn Spice; William Coldstream; Basil Wright; Stuart Legg; Alberto Cavalcanti; Norman McLaren; Lotte Reiniger; Pat Jackson; Humphrey Jennings; Richard Massingham
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 257 minutes), £24.99

    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...

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  3. 30s Britain Volume 2: North Sea (2006)

    Director
    John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 86 minutes), £12.99

    Collection of films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘North Sea’ (1938) directed by Harry Watt. An Aberdeen trawler in trouble gets assistance from Wick coastguard radio station, operated by the GPO. The first...

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  4. 30s Britain Volume 1: Granton Trawler (2006)

    Director
    John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 75 minutes), £12.99

    Collection of five films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘Granton Trawler’ (1934) directed by John Grierson. About a trawler fishing on the Viking Bank. ‘Coal Face’ (1935) directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. An...

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  5. Gpo Story, The (1983 Film, Video)

    Subject
    Film & television production; Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the GPO Film Unit. Tells the story of the Unit from its beginnings with the Empire Marketing Board, through to wartime documentaries of the Crown Film Unit....

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  6. Night Mail (Remastered and Restored) (1936)

    Director
    Harry Watt; Basil Wright
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 24 minutes (BFI + 92 minutes extras)), £15.99 (BFI) £19.99 (Panamint)

    One of the most critically acclaimed and iconic films produced within the British documentary movement, NIGHT MAIL tells the story of the travelling post office from Euston to Glasgow and the men who worked...

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  7. Pett and Pott (1934 Film)

    Director
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    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 -...

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