Search Results for: GPO Film Unit

[…] and all those places, they couldn't dial a telephone, let alone lay a line and all that kind of thing. They were having to rely upon the guys in the GPO who had been called up and put in the signals and asking them how you do this. Oh yes, jolly ho, I see. Oh yes jolly good. Well can you get me a p[…]

[…]   …can really forget them.  Oh, I know what it was.  One thing, my one thing I would love to have been is either Chairman of the GPO before telephones were nationalised, I reckon I could have run the Post Office and the telephone system a damn sight more efficiently than it was […]

[…] women in the same position’ (2006: 2). In 1937 the GPO Film Unit employed ten women (out of 51 staff overall), most […]

[…] in the 1930s as a documentary editor working at the GPO Film Unit with John Grierson and Cavalcanti. From there Hamer moved […]