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, amongst them Night Mail and North Sea, 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