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CROWN FILM UNIT

The former GPO Film Unit received more regal nomenclature as the war forced an alliance with the Ministry of Information, and homely stuff like the fabled WH Auden chunterings of Night Mail mutated into the more serious likes of Christmas Under Fire and The Eighth Plague. Then as peace broke out rather lighter fare appeared, such as Copy Book Please, in which Terry-Thomas schooled us in the correct way to write a letter.

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