Grierson

Duration: 57

Year Published: 1973

Creator: National Film Board of Canada

Format: 16mm

Color: Color & B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Reviews the life and work of filmmaker John Grierson, the father of documentary film. Uses film footage, posters and news clips to re-create Griersons's early life, his passion for films, his social consciousness and his establishment of the National Film Board of Canada. Roberto Rossellini, Joris Ivens, Sir Arthur Elton, Edgar Anstey, Basil Wright and others discuss Grierson's influences on their lives. , Develops a remembrance of John Grierson, "the father of documentary film," through comments from and interviews with the people who knew him and were influenced by his ideas. Uses early film footage, posters, news clips, and photographs to recreate Grierson's early life, his beginning passion for film, his single-handed creation of a new genre, his role in developing the National Film Board of Canada, and his later years of lecturing and teaching. Provides a personal view of the man by incorporating many of his own statements and commentaries as well as an interview with his wife and students he had taught at McGill University.

Complete Record: Reviews the life and work of filmmaker John Grierson, the father of documentary film. Uses film footage, posters and news clips to re-create Griersons's early life, his passion for films, his social consciousness and his establishment of the National Film Board of Canada. Roberto Rossellini, Joris Ivens, Sir Arthur Elton, Edgar Anstey, Basil Wright and others discuss Grierson's influences on their lives. , Develops a remembrance of John Grierson, "the father of documentary film," through comments from and interviews with the people who knew him and were influenced by his ideas. Uses early film footage, posters, news clips, and photographs to recreate Grierson's early life, his beginning passion for film, his single-handed creation of a new genre, his role in developing the National Film Board of Canada, and his later years of lecturing and teaching. Provides a personal view of the man by incorporating many of his own statements and commentaries as well as an interview with his wife and students he had taught at McGill University.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.