Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

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

A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the...

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

Old Zé Cristino, riding his donkey, goes to Congonhas do Campo to fulfill a promise to São Bom Jesus do Matozinho. In front of the...

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...

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...

Documentary about the construction of telephone lines.

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

Short GPO documentary, about mail that is sent out of the country to Switzerland.

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...

Where he goes, he doesn't need luggage... A very talkative traveler settles in the only wagon occupied by a man with a strange diction. The train is...

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

The laying of underground telephone cables.

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends...

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...