Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

The production of King George V's Silver Jubilee (1910-1935) special postage stamp, and a brief dramatised history of the development of the penny...

The ill-fated romance of a brow-beaten seaport slum café waitress and a young man with a possessive mother, who dreams of going out to sea.

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

A French-language Free French propaganda short made in wartime London: Germaine Sablon performs three resistance songs—most notably the first...

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

Spare Time is a 1939 British film directed by Humphrey Jennings for the GPO Film Unit, and made for the 1939 New York World's Fair. It is 15 minutes...

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...

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

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

Documentary about the construction of telephone lines.

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends...

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...

Where he goes, he doesn't need luggage... A very talkative traveler settles in the only wagon occupied by a man with a strange diction. The train is...

Using edited archive footage, mockery is made of Italy's dictator Benito Mussolini.

The laying of underground telephone cables.

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

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...