Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime...

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...

Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from.

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

Ambitious documentary chronicling the cultural life and religious customs of the Sinhalese and the effects of advanced industrialism on such customs.

This expository film shows the mood of European society on the eve of the Second World War while promoting the values of international cooperation....

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

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends...

Londoners prepare for war.

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

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...

A young couple goes through a plot unscathed in the welcoming salons of a large fashion house.

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.

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

This documentary short examines the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland on the...

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

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

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...

A French-language Free French propaganda short made in wartime London: Germaine Sablon performs three resistance songs—most notably the first...