Gpo Film Unit Movies

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

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

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

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

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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

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

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

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

Humphrey Jennings' first film as a director, a brief overview of the British postal service.

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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

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.

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...

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...

The organisation of medical services in Britain during the Second World War.

A short GPO documentary showing how undersea telephone cables are repaired.

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...

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.