Documentary about Humphrey Jennings, an English documentary filmmaker from the 1930s to 1950.
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...
The film, made to advertise domestic telephone sets, is based around two very different families. The Petts are conventional, happy and have children; the Potts are unconventional and unhappy, without children.
An impressionistic portrait of the BBC.
