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- Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight.
- A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
- Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.
- A look at how industry workers spend their time when they are not at work.
- Documentary showing the dangerous working conditions of coal mining across England, Scotland and Wales.
- A short film which documents the lives of the Sinhalese people.
- Abstract animation drawn directly on Technicolor film, some with underlying real life footage of unrelated subjects. Various colorful shapes and patterns move and interact, set to upbeat music.
- The film was made by colorful printing of footage combined with drawing directly on film. The bouncy music drives home the message heard at the end of the film, promoting the GPO (General Post Office): "The Post Office Savings Bank puts a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for you. No deposit too small for the Post Office Savings Bank."
- A dramatic reconstruction of the fishing trawler 'John Gillman' in trouble in a storm.
- Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends will, but with the moral that correspondents should get the address right.
- How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.
- Londoners prepare for war.
- A woman's letter to her mother, and interviews with historians and journalists reveal London as a gentrified city where people live in worlds separated by race and class.
- Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.
- A short British film advising people what they should do in case of war starting made just a few years before the start of WWII.
- A short film from the British Postal Service which reminds users of the deadline for parcels for the upcoming holidays.
- The world's press gather at Dover, England awaiting a threatened German attack.
- Men in Danger is a documentary about health and safety in industry, covering occupational diseases and potential accidents. It also covers the effects on the health of workers where the various tasks are very monotonous.
- An analysis of the development of London
- Shows the production of the London telephone directory.
- Shows how mail is delivered by air.
- The production of King George V's Silver Jubilee (1910-1935) special postage stamp. The film turns colour halfway through when stamp comes to be printed.
- The Fairy of the Phone appears, tiptoeing along the wires between telephone poles, and administers reproofs and advice to all sorts of telephone users, aided by a singing chorus of operators.
- A rare dramatic production for the GPO, although it is told in documentary style. It shows two fishermen who lose their boat and manage to save to buy another, and is intended to show people how one can scrimp and save.
- Just before World War II begins, a British merchantman makes her rounds in the Mediterranean Sea.
- 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 across the waters. Engineers of the Post Office describe how they are improving the service.
- The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military preoccupations of individual nations.
- How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent the announcement.
- Shows how the RAF's barrage balloon squadron are trained, and then on the job.
- A poetic history of the British Isles and it self-sufficient industries. The film is divided into four chapters: 1.Eriskay; 2.Guernsey; 3.Inner Farne and 4.Great Britain.
- A lighthearted look at the serious business of extra police training deployed for wartime.
- The history of wheels, roads and vehicles from cavemen to the coming of steam.
- Silhouette fairy tale film about a man who wins his true love with the help of the "wee folk".