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- Shows the special train on which mail is sorted, dropped and collected on the run, and delivered in Scotland overnight.
- A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
- A look at how industry workers spend their time when they are not at work.
- Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.
- Just before World War II begins, a British merchantman makes her rounds in the Mediterranean Sea.
- A woman's letter to her mother, and interviews with historians and journalists reveal London as a gentrified city where people live in worlds separated by race and class.
- A short film which documents the lives of the Sinhalese people.
- Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends will, but with the moral that correspondents should get the address right.
- The film was made by colorful printing of footage combined with drawing directly on film. The bouncy music drives home the message heard at the end of the film, promoting the GPO (General Post Office): "The Post Office Savings Bank puts a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for you. No deposit too small for the Post Office Savings Bank."
- A film advocating thrift by use of the Post Office Savings Bank.
- The Fairy of the Phone appears, tiptoeing along the wires between telephone poles, and administers reproofs and advice to all sorts of telephone users, aided by a singing chorus of operators.
- A short film from the British Postal Service which reminds users of the deadline for parcels for the upcoming holidays.
- Documentary showing the dangerous working conditions of coal mining across England, Scotland and Wales.
- The author J.B. Priestley delivers a talk about cross-border trade and communications as a benign force, which he contrasts with the military preoccupations of individual nations.
- Abstract animation drawn directly on Technicolor film, some with underlying real life footage of unrelated subjects. Various colorful shapes and patterns move and interact, set to upbeat music.
- How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.
- Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.
- Britons rally together to defend the island against the Nazis who were occupying neighbouring countries.
- A dramatic reconstruction of the fishing trawler 'John Gillman' in trouble in a storm.
- Londoners prepare for war.
- Shows the production of the London telephone directory.
- A poetic history of the British Isles and it self-sufficient industries. The film is divided into four chapters: 1.Eriskay; 2.Guernsey; 3.Inner Farne and 4.Great Britain.