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Popular Works

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9 popular works
Santa's on strike! This charming animation for the GPO advises early posting to keep Father Christmas onside.
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Christmas is Coming

  • 1951
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The Great Expedition

  • Westminster
  • 1959
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Hedd Wyn

  • Trawsfynydd
  • 1992
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Snowdrift at Bleath Gill

  • Bleathgill
  • 1955
Lindsay Anderson's ground-breaking short film about a Margate amusement park, which helped to launch a new documentary movement.
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O Dreamland

  • Margate
  • 1953
One of a series of animated films designed to provide instructions on how to survive a nuclear attack.
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Protect and Survive

  • 1975-10
The flagship of the GPO Film Unit's output and a cornerstone of British documentary, featuring music by Benjamin Britten and the verse of W.H. Auden.
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Night Mail

  • Euston Sta
  • 1936
One of the most disturbing public safety films depicts six children being picked off one-by-one by deadly farming machinery.
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Apaches

  • 1977
In this surrealist short, John Krish and Michael Gilmour tell a perilous tale at the railway station. Mind the gap - this is going to get scary.
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The Finishing Line

  • 1977