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  1. 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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  2. Roadways (1937 Film, Video)

    Director
    William Coldstream; Stuart Legg
    Producer
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Traces the histroy of transport with particular emphasis on the heavy growth of road traffic from 1918 until the late 1930s. The GPO, itself a major user, acknowledged its responsibilites and expressed its...

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  3. Fairy of the Phone, The (1936 Video)

    Director
    William Coldstream
    Producer
    Basil Wright
    Subject
    Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 13 min.

    A comedy with musical sequences including an opening song featuring a chorus of telephonists. The script was based on page 6 of the 1936 London telephone directory - instructions to subscribers on how to use...

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  4. King’s Stamp, The (1935 Video)

    Director
    William Coldstream
    Subject
    History; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 20 min.

    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...

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  5. Coal Face (1935 Video)

    Director
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire (film - BFI), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 10 min.

    Coalmining in Britain in the 1930s - conditions and state of the industry in the economy at that time. Set to verse by W H Auden, with music by Benjamin Britten.

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