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The General Post Office and its films in the 1930s
Free lecture, 7 September 2004
The Postal Heritage Trust offers a warm invitation to the latest series of FREE autumn lectures at the Phoenix Centre, Phoenix Place, London WC1X 0DL - next door to the Trust’s Archive Search Room.
Of particular interest to students of film is Dr Ian Aitken’s lecture on ‘The General Post Office and its films in the 1930s’ – a look at this important aspect of pre-war documentary filmmaking.
Dr Aitken is a Senior Research Fellow at De Montfort University, specialising in British documentary film, European cinema and issues around film and philosophy.
He is the author of Film and Reform (1990,92), The Documentary Film Movement; An Anthology (1998), Alberto Cavalcanti; Realism, Surrealism and National Cinemas (2001), and European Film Theory and Cinemas: Didacticism and Subjectivism (2001). Dr Aitken has also written on European cinema and globalisation, surrealism, Kracauer and film adaptations of Shakespeare.
All lectures begin at 7pm. FREE ENTRY, but pre-booking required. Group bookings welcomed.
To book your seat call 020 7239 2570 or email [log in to unmask]
Tuesday 7 September 2004
The GPO and its films in the 1930s
Dr Ian Aiken, Senior Research Fellow at De Montfort University
Tuesday 5 October 2004
The Future of Britain’s Oldest Public Service,
Reflections of an Old Postmaster-General
Tony Benn, former Postmaster-General
Tuesday 9 November 2004
The Machin Design
Douglas Muir, Curator of Philately, Postal Heritage Trust
Tuesday 7 December 2004
The A to Z of Special Stamps
Barry Robinson, former Stamp Programme Director for Royal Mail
For more information about the Postal Heritage Trust please see our website
www.royalmail.com/heritage
Postal Heritage Trust
Freeling House
Phoenix Place
London WC1X 0DL
Tel 020 7239 2570
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Registered Charity Number 1102360
Company Number 4896056
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