Alberto Cavalcanti Filmes

Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

A French-language Free French propaganda short made in wartime London: Germaine Sablon performs three resistance songs—most notably the first...

A re-creation of a bombing raid on Hanover, with the objective of promoting war savings bonds.

The life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the ragged, the rich and the poor.

“Catching up with gossip, inspecting new ducklings, clambering over gates, walking across meadows - the life of a postman appears idyllic, but...

Alberto Cavalcanti reviews his own prolific career as a filmmaker.

The laying of underground telephone cables.

A young man who loves his wife wants rid of his troublesome mistress. He dresses up as a wealthy Brazilian and seduces her in a jiffy. He hopes to...

How long-distance telephone calls are made, from the UK to the USA. We see operators, miles of wires, and the amplification of voice transmitted...

A New York music-hall actress lives in a miserable loveless marriage. After a violent scene, the man leaves her, taking their baby and leaving it...

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends...

Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family.

Literary adaptation: A female musician in Asia's tropics escapes from harassers' advances to an island where a timid man has retreated. Later when 3...

“The rolling hills and wide valleys of the Chilterns are given centre stage in this travelogue aimed at boosting tourism … The Chilterns...

Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime...