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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 short film which documents the lives of the Sinhalese people.
- A tribute to the courage and resiliency of Britons during the darkest days of the London Blitz.
- Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.
- Documentary showing the dangerous working conditions of coal mining across England, Scotland and Wales.
- 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."
- How Britain coped with a Christmas during the war.
- Londoners prepare for war.
- 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.
- An analysis of the development of London
- The production of King George V's Silver Jubilee (1910-1935) special postage stamp. The film turns colour halfway through when stamp comes to be printed.
- 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.
- The laying of underground telephone cables.
- 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.
- "News for the Navy" focuses on the progress of a newspaper that Evelyn posts to Bert
- A film advocating thrift by use of the Post Office Savings Bank.
- A dramatic reconstruction of the fishing trawler 'John Gillman' in trouble in a storm.
- A Cockney lad trains to be a messenger boy.
- A look at how industry workers spend their time when they are not at work.
- The history of wheels, roads and vehicles from cavemen to the coming of steam.
- 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.
- How news of a general reduction in GPO charges was finally brought to parliament and the people, despite attempts by the country's enemies to prevent the announcement.
- 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.
- Just before World War II begins, a British merchantman makes her rounds in the Mediterranean Sea.
- Shows the production of the London telephone directory.
- A short British film advising people what they should do in case of war starting made just a few years before the start of WWII.
- A brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail
- Animation featuring dancing black and white shadows.
- The world's press gather at Dover, England awaiting a threatened German attack.
- The history of steam locomotives seen through the collection of model trains at the Science Museum in London.
- Advertising cartoon for the Post Office Greetings Telegram service.
- Men in Danger is a documentary about health and safety in industry, covering occupational diseases and potential accidents. It also covers the effects on the health of workers where the various tasks are very monotonous.
- Two postmen remain jovial despite their normal rounds being flooded, and instead access them by boat.
- 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.