Gpo Film Unit Movies

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings about transatlantic telecommunications.

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

Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.

Rainbow Dance is a 1936 British animated film released by the GPO Film Unit. This is Lye's second film. It uses the Gasparcolor process.

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

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

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

Documentary short by Humphrey Jennings. The GPO Film Unit was a subdivision of the UK General Post Office. The unit was established in 1933, taking...

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an...

Experimental GPO publicity film extolling the virtues of the telegram service.

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.

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...

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

Police work during World War II in Britain.

Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".