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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
Price: £24.46
(Including VAT at 15%)
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Addressing the Nation: The GPO Film Unit Collection Volume 1 
GPO Film Unit
The first of three deluxe double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit on DVD for the first time.The complete collection includes legendary filmmakers such as John Grierson, Len Lye and Humphrey Jennings.

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.

Celebrating the 75th anniversaries in September 2008 of both the BFI and the GPO Film Unit itself, 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.

Addressing the Nation 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 Brittens precursor to Night Mail (included in volume two) and other neglected works, many of
which will be available for the first time since their original release.

The discs are presented in a deluxe box with an 80-page bound book.

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)
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