Drifters

Duration: Series:Great British Documentary Movement

Year Published: 1929

Creator: Empire Marketing Board Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment United Kingdom United States 1929

Description: "This silent film brought instant acclaim, both in Britain and abroad, to John Grierson. Never modest, Grierson saw his work as synthesizing the approaches of Robert Flaherty and Sergei Eisenstein; and by constructing a film out of discrete close-ups and decentered compositions, the filmmaker gave Drifters a distinctive, modernist look. Underneath these contemporary stylistics, however, this film about the herring industry looks back to turn-of-the-century British actualities which regularly depicted work processes"--Videodisc sleeve

Complete Record: Drifters Author: John Grierson Summary:"This silent film brought instant acclaim, both in Britain and abroad, to John Grierson. Never modest, Grierson saw his work as synthesizing the approaches of Robert Flaherty and Sergei Eisenstein; and by constructing a film out of discrete close-ups and decentered compositions, the filmmaker gave Drifters a distinctive, modernist look. Underneath these contemporary stylistics, however, this film about the herring industry looks back to turn-of-the-century British actualities which regularly depicted work processes"--Videodisc sleeve Show more Film, English, 1929 Edition:[Videodisc version has a music track compiled and performed by Robert Israel] View all formats and editions Publisher: Empire Marketing Board, Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment, United Kingdom, United States, 1929 Series: Great British Documentary Movement Genre: Silent films OCLC Number / Unique Identifier: 422874081 Subjects: British films Documentaries and factual films and video Features Great Britain Hareng Industrie Grande-Bretagne Herring industry Herring industry Great Britain Silent films Show more Notes: Credits supplied from videodisc sleeve Copyright notice on videodisc sleeve: Special contents of this edition, c1992, Film Preservation Associates. Artwork and summary, c1992, Kino International Corp. and c1995, Film Preservation Associates. LaserDisc package design, c1995, Image Entertainment, Inc First on The great British Documentary Movement with: Industrial Britain -- Song of Ceylon -- Granton trawler -- Pett and Pott -- Coal face -- Night mail -- North Sea -- London can take it! -- Listen to Britain -- Fires were started -- Target for tonight -- Desert victory -- Cameramen at war -- A diary for Timothy -- Instruments of the orchestra -- Steps of the ballet -- Family portrait -- Waverly Steps -- David Credits: Photographed by Basil Emmott. Show less information