Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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...

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

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

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

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...

Literary adaptation: A female musician in Asia's tropics escapes from harassers' advances to an island where a timid man has retreated. Later when 3...

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...

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

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...

How long-distance telephone calls are made, from the UK to the USA. We see operators, miles of wires, and the amplification of voice transmitted...

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

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

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

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

The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military...

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