| Description |
2 DVD (280) : sound, black & white ; 12 cm. + 1 booklet (76 pages) |
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GPO Film Unit Collection ; v. 1
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| Contents |
Disc 1. The coming of the dial / director, Stuart Legg (1933, 14 min.) -- Cable ship / Alexander Shaw, Stuart Legg (1933, 12 min.) -- Granton Trawler / John Grierson (1934, 11 min.) -- John Atkins saves up / Arthur Elton (1934, 18 min.) -- Air Post / Geoffrey Clark (1934, 12 min.) -- The glorious sixth of June / Alberto Cavalcanti (1934, 11 min.) -- Pett and Pott / Alberto Cavalcanti (1934, 31 min.) -- 6.30 Collection / Harry Watt, Edgar Anstey (1934, 15 min.) -- Weather forecast / Evelyn Spice (1934, 18 min.) -- Disc 2. Song of Ceylon / Basil Wright (1934, 40 min.) -- A colour box / Len Lye (1935, 4 min.) -- Coal face / Alberto Cavalcanti (1935, 12 min.) -- The King's stamp / William Coldstream (1935, 20 min.) -- BBC: the voice of Britain / Stuart Legg (1935, 56 min.) -- Sixpenny telegram / Donald Taylor (1935, 6 min.) |
| Summary |
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 springboard to many of the best-known and critically acclaimed figures in the British Documentary Movement. This volume contains 15 films from the period 1933-1935 and provides a fascinating exploration of the unit's early experimentation with sound. It features Basil Wright's award-winning Song of Ceylon and Len Lye's A Colour Box; the critically acclaimed Weather Forecast; Coal Face - directed by Alberto Cavalcanti and Auden and Britten's precursor to Night Mail and other neglected works |
| Notes |
Fifteen short films produced from 1933-1935 |
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Title from container |
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"This DVD is a jointly fund project between BFI, Royal Mail, The British Postal Museum & Archive and BT." |
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Special features: On the fishing banks of Skye by John Grierson (1935) ; GPO film display trailer; booklet containg indtroductory essays, selected biographies and film notes |
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Exempt from classification |
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Closed-captioned |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Post Office -- History
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BBC Radio -- History
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| SUBJECT |
BBC Radio. fast (OCoLC)fst00715856 |
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Great Britain. Post Office. fast (OCoLC)fst00543709 |
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Working class -- Great Britain -- History
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Fisheries -- Great Britain -- History
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Short films -- Great Britain
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Documentary films -- Great Britain
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Documentary films.
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Fisheries.
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Short films.
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Social conditions.
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Working class.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Social conditions
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| Subject |
Great Britain.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Author |
Legg, Stuart, film director
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Shaw, Alexander, film director
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Grierson, John, 1898-1972, film director
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Elton, Arthur, film director
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Clark, Geoffrey, film director
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Cavalcanti, Alberto, film director
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Watt, Harry, 1906-1987, film director
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Anstey, Edgar, film director
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Spice, Evelyn, film director
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Wright, Basil, film director
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Lye, Len, 1901-1980, film director
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Coldstream, William, 1908-1987, film director
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Taylor, Donald, 1911-1966, film director
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Great Britain. Post Office. Film Unit, production company
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Royal Mail Group (Firm), issuing body
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British Film Institute
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