Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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

The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.

The laying of underground telephone cables.

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

Documentary about the construction of telephone lines.

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

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

“The rolling hills and wide valleys of the Chilterns are given centre stage in this travelogue aimed at boosting tourism … The Chilterns...

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

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...

The operation of a floating sea fort during WWII, and the lives of those who work on board.

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

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...

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

Men in Danger is a documentary about health and safety in industry, covering occupational diseases and potential accidents. It also covers the...

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