GPO (General Post Office) Film Unit Collection

The pioneering GPO Film Unit represents the start of what is now widely regarded as the beginnings of the British Documentary Movement and the first self-conscious attempt to create a British national cinema. The unit lasted for just seven years, yet its films set the trend for generations that followed, and its impact spread the world over. Its iconic films have proved to have an ever-lasting popularity and appeal that hasn’t dwindled in over 75 years. The operation and uniqueness of the unit itself has become legendary for providing opportunity and apprenticeships for some of the twentieth century’s most distinctive technicians, artists, designers, poets, musicians and writers.

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