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GENERAL POST OFFICE

1982-0192

Film

1 of 1

1938

General Post Office

producer, Alberto Cavalcanti; director/script, Harry Watt; photography, H.E. Fowle; Jonah Jones; music, Ernst Meyer

A reconstruction of one of the many incidents which occurred in the big gale of 1937, the film shows how ship-to-shore radio service safeguards the lives of seamen. The film develops the use of "story" and "actors" started in the film NIGHT MAIL, which reached its peak in the realist full-length fictional feature and which was to distinguish British theatrical films in the war and early postwar years. The voice of the unseen commentator disappears almost entirely and a greater use is made of natural direct-recorded speech, in this case that of the Aberdeen trawlermen. <30mn>

English

Libre

with permission of GPO