Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

The first behind-the-scenes documentary in the film industry, from the making of a camera (Debrie) to studio shooting and directing, including...

“Musical performers Henry Hall and his Orchestra hog the limelight in this promotional film, ostensibly for Ascot gas water heaters.” -...

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

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

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

A nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately must rescue her from bandits

This film is based on actual letters German soldiers sent home from the siege of Leningrad during World War II. The litany of trouble these poor...

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

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

A New York music-hall actress lives in a miserable loveless marriage. After a violent scene, the man leaves her, taking their baby and leaving it...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

“The rolling hills and wide valleys of the Chilterns are given centre stage in this travelogue aimed at boosting tourism … The Chilterns...

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

The life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the ragged, the rich and the poor.

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

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...

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...

Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family.