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An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.

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

Experimental GPO publicity film extolling the virtues of the telegram service.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shows the production of the London telephone directory.

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

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

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

A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.

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

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

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.

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...

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...