Alberto Cavalcanti Movies

Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family.

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

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

Short GPO documentary, about mail that is sent out of the country to Switzerland.

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...

1935 documentary about the hard working life of Welsh coal miners.

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...

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...

British war documentary

Documentary about the construction of telephone lines.

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

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...

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...

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