Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have...

The laying of underground telephone cables.

Drama-documentary, reconstructing a real incident in which a trawler got into difficulties in a North Sea storm. Released 7th March 1938.

The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military...

The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.

Documentary about the construction of telephone lines.

“The rolling hills and wide valleys of the Chilterns are given centre stage in this travelogue aimed at boosting tourism … The Chilterns...

A brisk GPO Film Unit promo for the Post Office Savings Bank: pub talk and daydream vignettes tout penny-by-penny thrift, peaking in a playful Norman...

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

Spare Time is a 1939 British film directed by Humphrey Jennings for the GPO Film Unit, and made for the 1939 New York World's Fair. It is 15 minutes...

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent...

Captures the role played by the Royal Navy in the defence of Britain, and their role in convoy escort.

The operation of a floating sea fort during WWII, and the lives of those who work on board.