Gpo Film Unit Movies

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

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

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

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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

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.

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

A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail.

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

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.

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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

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...

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

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

The building and launch of a new long-wave radio transmitter - just as the TV age is about to be born.

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...

Wartime morale-boosting propaganda short, looking at the greatness of Britain and the efforts of all to preserve her power and integrity.