Rent GPO: Vol.1: Addressing the Nation (1933)
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2h 20min
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- Synopsis:
- Created in 1933 out of the ashes of the Empire Marketing Board Film Unit, 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, Basil Wright and Harry Watt, alongside innovators and experimentalists such as Len Lye arid Norman McLaren. Their work embraced public information films, drama-documentary, social reportage, animation and advertising.
- Actors:
- W.H. Auden, Montagu Slater, J.M. Reeves, Marjorie Fone, Lionel Wendt
- Directors:
- John Grierson, Basil Wright, Edgar Anstey, Geoffrey Clark, Alberto Cavalcanti
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Anime & Animation, Children & Family, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Music & Musicals, Special Interest
- Collections:
- Top 10 Films of 1972
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