The GPO Story - AB - RMA1006

The GPO Story, co-produced by The Post Office and the BBC, tells the story of the GPO Film Unit’s bold experiments in movie-making. Extracts from many of the classics, amongst them Night Mail and North Sea, are included, as are interviews with many of the GPO film-makers, including Harry Watt, Basil Wright, Stuart Legg, Edgar Anstey, Chick Fowle, Pat Jackson, R.Q. McNaughton, Ralph Bond and Ken Cameron.

Also included are six colour animated films from the 1930s:

Colour Box (1935) Directed by Len Lye

Rainbow Dance (1936) Directed by Len Lye

Trade Tattoo (1937) Directed by Len Lye

The Tocher (1938) Directed by Lotte Reiniger

The HPO - Heavenly Post Office (1938) Directed by Lotte Reiniger

Love on the Wing (1936) Directed by Norman McLaren