A mass society sends masses of letters, which are now sorted, classified and sent on their way at assembly lines and with the help of machines. The film follows this process with barely concealed enthusiasm. It is considered to be the first documentary that uses only live sound, while demonstrating that sound is capable of much more than just “documentation” ...

When the young Norman McLaren saw “A Colour Box”, he knew that this was exactly what he wanted to do. Made without a camera and drawn directly on the celluloid ...

Norman McLaren, who made this film as a young member of the Communist Party and when he was more or less an amateur, later called it his only “social documentary”. The mixture of live action, drawn and ...

This film manifested Norman McLaren’s experimental and unique work for the GPO. He mixes surrealist backdrops with silhouettes of famous buildings and a story drawn on the film whose individual frames keep melting into ...

This is one of the most colourful GPO propaganda films. Director Len Lye painted it directly on a film strip on which a real live person had been recorded to make the figure look like an animated character dancing in a ...

Nine words for sixpence – the (now almost forgotten) telegram as a new way of transmitting messages quickly, cheaply and simply has entered the stage and calls for promotion ...

Set to an excerpt of László Moholy-Nagy’s “Lightplay: Black White Gray”, created by his “Light Display Machine” (the rights to which Grierson had acquired), the voice-over soberly praises science as the creative power of the modern world and proclaims the application of its laws to everyday problems ...