Movies

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

Where he goes, he doesn't need luggage... A very talkative traveler settles in the only wagon occupied by a man with a strange diction. The train is...

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

Spare Time is a 1939 British film directed by Humphrey Jennings for the GPO Film Unit, and made for the 1939 New York World's Fair. It is 15 minutes...

Londoners prepare for war.

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

How long-distance telephone calls are made, from the UK to the USA. We see operators, miles of wires, and the amplification of voice transmitted...

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

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

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

The operation of a floating sea fort during WWII, and the lives of those who work on board.

Documentary about the construction of telephone lines.

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...

British war documentary

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

The laying of underground telephone cables.

A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.