Number of Items in Your Basket
Basket Total
BFI Filmstore  >   DVDs >  Documentary  > Addressing the Nation: The GPO Film Unit Collection Volume 1
Information
 Home
 Latest BFI Products
 Best Sellers
 Offers & Promotions
 BFI Member Discounts
 Visit the Filmstore
 Filmstore Events
 Certification
Products
Contact Us
Tel: 020 7815 135
Accepted Cards: Visa Mastercard Amex Maestro Delta Solo Electron
Addressing the Nation: The GPO Film Unit Collection Volume 1

certificate E Certificate
DVD: 29 Sep 2008
B&W, and colour
UK
Subtitles: English for the hard-of-hearing
Published/distributed by BFI
ISBN/EAN: 5035673007587
Ratio 1.33:1
Region 2 Runtime: 300 mins
Price: £18.98
(Including VAT at 20%)
<back
Addressing the Nation: The GPO Film Unit Collection Volume 1 
GPO Film Unit
'It was something altogether new to be looking at ordinary things as if they were extraordinary...' John Grierson.

Created 75 years ago out of the ashes of the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit, 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.

John Grierson, Alberto Cavalcanti, Humphrey Jennings, Basil Wright, Harry Watt, Edgar Anstey and Arthur Elton, alongside innovators and experimentalists such as Len Lye and Norman McLaren are some of the directors whose work embraced public information films, drama-documentary, social reportage, animation and advertising.

The BFI National Archive, in partnership with The British Postal Museum & Archive (BPMA), Royal Mail and BT Heritage, has curated and restored this legendary output of short films.

This, the first of three volumes, provides a fascinating exploration of the unit's early experimentation with sound, and features the award winnning 'Song of Ceylon' and other neglected works many of which will be available for the first time since their original release.

Disc One

* The Coming of the Dial (1933)
* Cable Ship (1933)
* Granton Trawler (1934)
* John Atkins Saves Up (1934)
* Air Post (1934)
* The Glorious Sixth of June (1934)
* Pett and Pott (1934)
* 6.30 Collection (1934)
* Weather Forecast

Disc Two

* Song of Ceylon (1934)
* A Colour Box (1935)
* Coal Face (1935)
* The King's Stamp (1935)
* BBC The Voice of Britain (1935)
* Sixpenny Telegram (1935)

Extras
* On the Fishing Banks of Skye (John Grierson, 1935)
* GPO Film Display trailer
* 80-page book containing introductory essays, biographies and film notes
* Dolby Digital mono audio (320 kbps)
0