GPO Film Unit

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

Release : 1936.01.13
Popularity : 2.918

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

Release : 1935.01.01
Popularity : 2.525

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

Release : 1935.06.03
Popularity : 1.677

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

Release : 1934.11.30
Popularity : 1.536

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

Release : 1933.06.30
Popularity : 1.529

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.

Release : 1936.12.31
Popularity : 1.424

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

Release : 1934.04.16
Popularity : 1.379

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

Release : 1940.10.01
Popularity : 1.259

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

Release : 1940.07.31
Popularity : 1.21

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

Release : 1934.10.18
Popularity : 1.022

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

Release : 1938.02.05
Popularity : 0.99

An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

Release : 1935.07.28
Popularity : 0.965

This portait of life on the tea plantations is decidedly rosy – clearly, there are no exploited workers here. However, the film provides an...

Release : 1936.01.01
Popularity : 0.879

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....

Release : 1936.01.01
Popularity : 0.878

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

Release : 1934.07.31
Popularity : 0.848

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...

Release : 1934.08.04
Popularity : 0.713