Screenplay: Montagu Slater

Direction Alberto Cavalcanti

Cast W.H. Auden · Montagu Slater

Plot Coal Face (1935) was the first influential film to be made by the GPO Film Unit. It continued the experimentation with sound effects and music first initiated in Song of...

Direction Terry Bishop

Plot This 47-minute documentary, financed by HRH's government, won an Oscar in the special category, and most of it was later edited into a 1953 two-segment documentary called "Savage World" by...

Direction Jack Lee

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Bonar Colleano · Bill Owen · Renée Asherson

Plot Set in the 1930s, factory worker Bill Fox quits his job and becomes a speedway rider the Cobra Speedway. Thetrack owner, Rowton, puts Fox in a novice race that he...

Direction Philip Leacock

Cast Jane Hylton · Muriel Pavlow · David Evans · Mary Merrall

Plot "Out of True" was made by the Crown Film Unit with sponsorship from the Ministry of Health, and was promoted as a "fictional account of a nervous breakdown which conforms...

Direction Cyril Frankel

Cast Frederick Bijuerenda · Gordon Heath · Violet Mukabuerza

Plot Dramatisation of the Bakiga people's attempt to cultivate the Kigezi district of Uganda, region inhabited by Pygmies. Jonathan, educated clerk, son of the village's chief, goes along with other men's...

Direction Cyril Frankel

Cast Googie Withers · John McCallum · Jeremy Spenser · Meredith Edwards

Plot A young jockey is determined to win whatever the cost, but finds that there are more important things than success.

Direction Alexander Shaw · John Taylor

Plot The world of 18th century England, as seen through visits to art galleries, museums and old houses in and around London.

Direction J. B. Holmes

Cast Michael Goodliffe · Gracie Fields · Barbara Lott

Plot Documentary showing the life and atmosphere of Southampton's port.