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The GPO Film Unit was a subdivision of the UK General Post Office. The unit was established in 1933, taking on responsibilities of the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit. Headed by John Grierson, [1] it was set up to produce sponsored documentary films mainly related to the activities of the GPO.
Die GPO Film Unit war eine Unterabteilung des britischen General Post Office (GPO), die 1933 zur Produktion von Informations- und Werbefilmen gegründet wurde. Unter ihrem ersten Direktor John Grierson bildete die GPO Film Unit den Mittelpunkt der britischen Dokumentarfilmbewegung der 1930er Jahre.
The GPO Film Unit was a subdivision of the UK General Post Office. The unit was established in 1933, taking on responsibilities of the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit. Headed by John Grierson, it was set up to produce sponsored documentary films mainly related to the activities of the GPO.
Night Mail is a 1936 British documentary film directed and produced by Harry Watt and Basil Wright, and produced by the General Post Office (GPO) Film Unit. The 24-minute film documents the nightly postal train operated by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) from London to Scotland and
Squadron 992 is a 23-minute 1940 British propaganda film produced by the General Post Office GPO Film Unit of the British Ministry of Information and re-distributed by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as part of their wartime Canada Carries On series.
27 mag 2024 · Created in 1933, the GPO Film Unit was one of the most remarkable creative institutions that Britain ever produced. Read more A hotbed of artistic talent, it provided a springboard to many of the most acclaimed figures in the British Documentary Movement and beyond, including John Grierson, Alberto Cavalcanti, Humphrey Jennings, Lotte Reiniger, Len Lye and Norman McLaren.
2 giorni fa · Although the GPO Film Unit was eventually subsumed by the newly created Central Office of Information in 1946, and many of the filmmakers from its golden age migrated into commercial film production and television, the post office continued to make films. Early GPO efforts like Cable Ship (1933) and Under the City (1934) had found their ...
