Gpo Film Unit Movies

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

Shows the workings of Britain's Air Post service.

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

Humphrey Jennings’s wartime short rallies Britain’s countryside, showing fields ploughed up from fallow, seed sown, and crops raised on...

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

As the subtitle of the film suggests - The Story of a Post Card from Manchester to Graffham - this journey is very much focused on the process of...

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

A film made by the British General Post Office (GPO) in 1933, promoting the automation of telephone exchanges.

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

A story of sacrifice, in which organised labour voluntarily relinquishes hard-won workplace rights after being asked "to give up by choice what...

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

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

Experimental animation produced by GPO to explain telephone systems to the public.

Live action and animated toys are used to illustrate the importance of cleanliness and eating good food.

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

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

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

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...

“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...

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...