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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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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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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initially as a church organist and piano teacher before joining the GPO Film Unit, where he wrote incidental music for documentaries, including Mony a...
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General Post Office (redirect from GPO UK)
(GPO) was the state postal system and telecommunications carrier of the United Kingdom until 1969. Established in England in the 17th century, the GPO...
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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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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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Rainbow Dance (category GPO Film Unit films)
1936 British animated film, created by New Zealand-born animation pioneer Len Lye and released by the GPO Film Unit. Lye's second film to be viewed by the...
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Norman McLaren (category Drawn-on-film animators)
film unit, saw another of his movies at an amateur film festival and hired McLaren. McLaren worked at the GPO from 1936 to 1939, making eight films including...
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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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Stuart Legg (category British documentary film producers)
GPO Film Unit 1934 - producer and director The New Operator - training film, GPO Film Unit 1934 - director Savings Bank - documentary short, GPO Film...
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During the Second World War, he made documentary films for the GPO Film Unit (1939–40) and the Crown Film Unit (1941–1943). From 1944 to 1946, he worked as...
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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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Coal Face (category GPO Film Unit films)
documentary film short directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. With a film score by Benjamin Britten and a poem written and narrated by W.H. Auden, the film gives a...
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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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Humphrey Jennings (category English film directors)
including photographer, painter and theatre designer. He joined the GPO Film Unit, then under John Grierson, in 1934, largely it is thought because Jennings...
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possibilities for developing documentary film. By 1937, the movement was spread across four different production units: GPO, Shell (headed by Anstey), Strand...
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Dufaycolor (category Film and video technology)
films; Len Lye, for instance, used it for his films Kaleidoscope (1935), A Colour Box (1935), and Swinging the Lambeth Walk (1940). The GPO Film Unit...
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Cinema of the United Kingdom (redirect from Film history/United Kingdom)
the home front. The Crown Film Unit, part of the Ministry of Information took over the responsibilities of the GPO Film Unit in 1940. Paul Rotha and Alberto...
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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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Spare Time (redirect from Spare Time (film))
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 long...
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Norman McLaren produced hand-painted films for John Grierson in the GPO Film Unit. Lye went on to create direct films in New York. Beginning in 1941, McLaren...
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Crown Film Unit was an organisation within the British Government's Ministry of Information during the Second World War; until 1940, it was the GPO Film Unit...
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Ireland. Crown Film Unit — was a government-owned film production company that operated from 1940 to 1952. It was formerly the GPO Film Unit. Cumberland...
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effects. In the United Kingdom, the Crown Film Unit supersedes the GPO Film Unit in the production of documentary films. Best Picture: Rebecca – David O. Selznick...
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The Song of Ceylon (category GPO Film Unit films)
location in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) at the start of 1934 and completed at the GPO film studios in Blackheath, London. Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural...
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marrying at Penzance register office. In 1936 the GPO Film Unit made The Saving of Bill Blewitt, a short film to promote the Post Office Savings Bank, featuring...
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outbreak of World War II, the GPO Film Unit became the Crown Film Unit. The Crown Film Unit was based at Beaconsfield Film Studios. Fifty-one productions...
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John Grierson (category Government Film Commissioners and Chairpersons of the National Film Board of Canada)
as much at GPO workers as the general public. During Grierson's administration, the GPO Film Unit produced a series of groundbreaking films, including...
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to Cairo, Egypt to form AFPU's Number 1 Unit. This group, led by Major David MacDonald (a former GPO Film Unit member) first recorded (using Canadian-made...
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