Overview

Addressing the Nation contains 15 films from 1933 – 1935 and provides a fascinating exploration of the unit’s early experimentation with sound. Featuring the award-winning Song of Ceylon and A Colour Box, the critically acclaimed Weather Forecast, Coal Face – Auden and Britten’s precursor to Night Mail and other neglected works many of which will be available for the first time since their original release.

We Live in Two Worlds covers the period 1936 – 1938 and represents the GPO Film Unit at its creative height. It includes much-loved classics such as Night Mail, more experimental films including the experimental animations of Len Lye and Norman McLaren and early drama-documentary with North Sea and The Saving of Bill Blewitt. It also features less well known films many of which will be available for the first time since their release.

If War Should Come This volume of 18 films covers the period 1939-1941 and sees the Unit at its most technically sophisticated, with directors such as Watt and Cavalcanti spearheading the use of documentary film in support of the war effort. The films provide a fascinating and poignant insight into a nation on the cusp of war, with masterpieces includedSpare Time and London Can Take It!.

Each DVD box set comes with a booklet including introductory essays, selected biographies and film notes.

Region 2 DVDs available only.