Created in 1933 out of the ashes of the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit the GPO Film Unit was one of the most remarkable creative institutions that Britain has produced. A hotbed of creative energy and talent it provided a spring board to many of the best-known and critically acclaimed figures in the British Documentary Movement including John Grierson Alberto Cavalcanti Humphrey Jennings Basil Wright Harry Watt Edgar Anstey and Arthur Elton alongside innovators and experimentalists such as Len Lye and Norman McLaren. Their work embraced public information drama-documentary... social reportage animation advertising and many points in between. The BFI National Archive in partnership with the British Postal Heritage Museum Royal Mail and British Telecom has preserved and curated the legendary output of short films produced by the GPO Film Unit. This the second of three volumes represents the GPO Film Unit at its creative height - including much-loved classics such as Night Mail the experimental animations of Len Lye and Norman McLaren and Harry Watts' first forays into drama documentary with The Saving of Bill Blewitt and North Sea. [show more]
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A collection of short films produced by the GPO Film Unit. The BFI National Archive, in partnership with BT, Royal Mail and The British Postal Museum and Archive, has curated and restored the output of short films produced by the GPO Film Unit from 1933-1940. The unit provided a spring board to many of the best-known and critically acclaimed figures in the British Documentary Movement, including John Grierson, Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Wright and Harry Watt, alongside innovators and experimentalists such as Len Lye and Norman McLaren. This, the second of three volumes, contains the following titles: 'Rainbow Dance' (1936), 'Saving of Bill Blewitt' (1936), 'Calendar of the Year' (1936), 'Fairy of the Phone' (1936), 'Night Mail' (1936), 'Roadways' (1937), 'Trade Tattoo' (1937), 'Big Money' (1937), 'We Live in Two Worlds' (1937), 'N Or NW' (1937), 'A Job in a Million' (1937), 'Book Bargain' (1937), 'What's On Today' (1938), 'Love On the Wing' (1938), 'The Horsey Mail' (1938), 'Heavenly Post Office' (1938), 'News for the Navy' (1938), 'Mony a Pickle' (1938), 'North Sea' (1938), 'Penny Journey' (1938), 'The Tocher' (1938) and 'Gods Chillun' (1938).
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