The GPO story plus animation

The GPO story plus animation

Animated films--Great Britain

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.

Post Office Film Collection and British Broadcasting Corporation

Panamint Cinema

1983

Lye, Len

Reiniger, Lotte

McLaren, Norman

Wright, Basil

DVD

English

(D) Documentary

G76 1983 DVD

88 minutes