Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

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...

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...

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...

Londoners prepare for war.

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...

The operation of a floating sea fort during WWII, and the lives of those who work on board.

Captures the role played by the Royal Navy in the defence of Britain, and their role in convoy escort.

Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from.

Men in Danger is a documentary about health and safety in industry, covering occupational diseases and potential accidents. It also covers the...

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

The first behind-the-scenes documentary in the film industry, from the making of a camera (Debrie) to studio shooting and directing, including...

Documentary following an Edinburgh fishing trawler, the "Isabella Grieg".

A compilation tracing the history of realist cinema from its beginnings to World War II. Divided into five parts, it covers the development of...

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."