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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. New Britain, The (2013)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Keene; Roy Boulting; Charles Hasse; John Page
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 79 minutes), £16.33

    A collection of British wartime propaganda films made to boost optimism and showing how the armed forces and civilians stood up to the Nazi threat. THE NEW BRITAIN (1940). With great optimism, Britain...

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  3. 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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  4. Christmas Under Fire (1941 Video)

    Director
    Harry Watt
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 10 min.

    Quentin Reynolds’ second film despatch from London to America shows Christmas 1940, the year of the Blitz. By this time Ian Dalrymple was head of the GPO Film Unit which had been renamed the Crown Film...

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  5. Target for Tonight (1941 Film, Video)

    Director
    Harry Watt
    Producer
    Ian Dalrymple
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Illustrates the work of the Bomber Command in World War 2. Shows what it was like to fly on some of the earliest Wellington bomber raids agains Nazi Germany, following the fictional ‘F for Freddie’ on a...

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  6. Britain Can Take It (1940 Video)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings; Harry Watt
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 9 min.

    'The film was a collaboration by the whole unit. Everything else stopped for it’ Harry Watt has said. ‘I think I wrote the script. At least I wrote it down, but let us say it was a communal script. It...

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  7. Front Line, The (1940 Video)

    Director
    Harry Watt
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 6 min.

    Dover, 15th September 1940: for three months the town has been a frontier target for the Reich but the spirit of the people is undaunted. ‘There was only one hotel left in existence in Dover’, Harry Watt...

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  8. London Can Take It (1940 Film, Video)

    Director
    Humphrey Jennings; Harry Watt
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The story of the first night of the London Blitz, told in the form of a dispatch from an American correspondent.

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  9. Squadron 992 (1940 Video)

    Director
    Harry Watt
    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 26 min.

    In response to a request for a film that showed the importance of balloon barrage, Harry Watt made this drama-documentary about the training of a balloon squadron and its first assignment to the Forth...

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  10. North Sea (1939 Video)

    Director
    Harry Watt
    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 31 min.

    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,...

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