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Moving Image
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Duration
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88 minutes
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Title
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The GPO story plus animation
Subject
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Animated films--Great Britain
Description
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By the way of an introduction to the GPO Classic Collection, The GPO Story, co-produced by The Post Office and the BBC, tells the story of the GPO Film Unit's bold experiments in movie-making. Extracts from many of the classics are included, as are interviews with many of the GPO film-makers, including Harry Watt, Basil Wright, Stuart Legg, Edgar Anstey, Chick Fowle, Pat Jackson, R.Q. McNaughton, Ralph Bond and Ken Cameron.
Also included are six colour animated films from the 1930s:
Colour Box (1935) Directed by Len Lye;
Rainbow Dance (1936) Directed by Len Lye;
Trade Tattoo (1937) Directed by Len Lye;
The Tocher (1938) Directed by Lotte Reiniger;
The HPO - Heavenly Post Office (1938) Directed by Lotte Reiniger;
Love on the Wing (1936) Directed by Norman McLaren.
Publisher
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Post Office Film Collection and British Broadcasting Corporation
Panamint Cinema
Date
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1983
Contributor
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Lye, Len
Reiniger, Lotte
McLaren, Norman
Wright, Basil
Format
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DVD
Language
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English
Type
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(D) Documentary
Identifier
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G76 1983 DVD