The GPO Film Unit was a subdivision of the UK General Post Office. The unit was established in 1933, taking on responsibilities of the Empire Marketing...
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Night Mail (redirect from Night Mail (film))
documentary film directed and produced by Harry Watt and Basil Wright, and produced by the General Post Office (GPO) Film Unit. The 24-minute film documents...
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London Can Take It! (category GPO Film Unit films)
produced by the GPO Film Unit for the British Ministry of Information and distributed throughout the United States by Warner Bros. The film was directed...
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General Post Office (redirect from GPO UK)
designed and built by GPO engineer Tommy Flowers and his team at the Post Office Research Station in Dollis Hill. GPO Film Unit GPO telephones Post Office...
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A Colour Box (category GPO Film Unit films)
Grierson to make a direct animation for the GPO Film Unit. Lye was paid £30, with his materials paid for by the GPO. Lye and sound editor Jack Ellitt went...
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Alberto Cavalcanti (category Brazilian film producers)
work at the GPO was uncredited, he acted as a mentor to many new film makers. In 1937, he was appointed acting head of the GPO Film Unit when Grierson...
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Yates). Film scripts and opera libretti Coal Face (1935, closing chorus for GPO Film Unit documentary). Night Mail (1936, narrative for GPO Film Unit documentary...
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a 1938 documentary film produced by Alberto Cavalcanti under the auspices of the GPO Film Unit and directed by Harry Watt. The film makers challenged the...
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Pett and Pott (category GPO Film Unit films)
Fairy Story of the Suburbs) is a 1934 short film produced by John Grierson under the auspices of the GPO Film Unit and directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. Made...
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The King's Stamp (category GPO Film Unit films)
The King's Stamp is a 1935 short film produced by Alberto Cavalcanti under the auspices of the GPO Film Unit and directed by William Coldstream. It was...
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