"Director: Len Lye"

• The General Post Office Film Unit Collection Vol.2 - We Live In Two Worlds | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £12.80   |  Saving you £12.19 (95.23%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Created in 1933 out of the ashes of the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit the GPO Film Unit was one of the most remarkable creative institutions that Britain has produced. A hotbed of creative energy and talent it provided a spring board to many of the best-known and critically acclaimed figures in the British Documentary Movement including John Grierson Alberto Cavalcanti Humphrey Jennings Basil Wright Harry Watt Edgar Anstey and Arthur Elton alongside innovators and experimentalists such as Len Lye and Norman McLaren. Their work embraced public information drama-documentary social reportage animation advertising and many points in between. The BFI National Archive in partnership with the British Postal Heritage Museum Royal Mail and British Telecom has preserved and curated the legendary output of short films produced by the GPO Film Unit. This the second of three volumes represents the GPO Film Unit at its creative height - including much-loved classics such as Night Mail the experimental animations of Len Lye and Norman McLaren and Harry Watts' first forays into drama documentary with The Saving of Bill Blewitt and North Sea.

• The GPO Story | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-1.59 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  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:

• 30's Britain Volume 3 - GPO Classic Collection | DVD | (31/07/2006) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The King's Stamp (1935): directed by William Coldstream. The designing and printing of the King George V Silver Jubilee stamp followed by a short history of postage stamps. The Fairy Of The Phone (1936): directed by William Coldstream. A fanciful comedy on how to use the telephone. News For The Navy (1937): directed by Norman McLaren. Following a package from letter box to delivery to HMS Incredible in Bermuda. N or NW (1937): directed by Len Lye. The importance of correctly addressing a letter of apology. Roadways (1937): directed by Stuart Legg and William Coldstream. The history of transport especially the growth in road traffic. The Horsey Mail (1938): directed by Pat Jackson. The mail is delivered by boat when part of East Norfolk is hit by floods. Mony A Pickle (1939): produced by Alberto Cavalcanti. The Post Office Savings Bank is a natural target for Scottish thrift. Nine For Six (1939): A telegram saves the day when a football team loses its only ball just before a match.