Gpo Film Unit Movies

The picture shows the industrialization of England, and the measures taken to clean up afterwards: a lyrical counterpart of Men In Danger, and a...

Combining a whimsical romantic tale, practical information about the Post Office Savings Bank, and a gently experimental film-making technique, this...

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.

“The preparations made by the GPO to enable the press and the BBC to cover a major sporting event, in this instance, the Manx T.T. motor-cycle...

Silhouette film advertising the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.

Shows the workings of Britain's Air Post service.

A behind-the-scenes GPO Film Unit documentary (directed by Stuart Legg) that races from studio rehearsals and newsrooms to control rooms and...

Sponsored by the Ministry of Information and shown as part of cinema programmes throughout the Second World War, this short film takes place halfway...

How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent...

Short GPO documentary, about mail that is sent out of the country to Switzerland.

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...

Trade Tattoo went even further than Rainbow Dance in its manipulation of the Gasparcolor process. The original black and white footage consisted of...

Police work during World War II in Britain.

Short documentary showing the workings of a large London sorting office.

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...

The production of King George V's Silver Jubilee (1910-1935) special postage stamp, and a brief dramatised history of the development of the penny...

Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime...

Documentary about the construction of telephone lines.

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends...