Rent GPO: Vol.2: We Live in Two Worlds (1938)
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- Synopsis:
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 Museum and Archive, Royal Mail and BT Heritage, has curated and preserved the legendary output of short films produced by the GPO Film Unit. This, the second of three volumes, covers the period 1936-1938 and 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' as well as other neglected works, many of which will be available for the first time since their original release. - Actors:
- Bob O'Brian, Claude Simmonds, Evelyn Corbett, J.F. Hoggard, Bill Blewitt, Rupert Doone, Charlotte Leigh, Arthur Clark, John Grierson, Stuart Legg, Robert Rae, Dwight Godwin
- Directors:
- Evelyn Cherry, Norman McLaren, Pat Jackson, Lotte Reiniger, Alberto Cavalcanti, Richard Massingham, Harry Watt, Humphrey Jennings, Len Lye, William Coldstream, Basil Wright
- Producers:
- Norman McLaren, Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Wright, John Grierson, Harry Watt
- Voiced By:
- G. Copeland Grant
- Narrated By:
- J.B. Priestley
- Writers:
- Lotte Reiniger, Harry Watt, W.H. Auden, Hugh Westman, J.B. Priestley
- Aka:
- The General Post Office Film Unit Collection Vol.2 - We Live In Two Worlds
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Anime & Animation, Children & Family, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Music & Musicals, Special Interest
