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Working class on film

…and in Canada in the 1940s by John Grierson whose idea was to portray the working…

1975 National Film Board of Canada 14 New York Public Library
Trade tattoo

Intended as publicity for the British postal system, Lye uses solarization, montage, photo montage and other…

1937 Central Office Of Information 6 New York Public Library
The Working class on film

Extracts from films made by John Grierson, showing the lives and conditions of working people of…

Australian Centre for the Moving Image
The Working Class On Film

Discusses the documentary film movements inspired by John Grierson in England in the 1930's and…

1975 Natl Film Board Of Canada
The Song of Ceylon (1934)

A 1934 British documentary film directed by Basil Wright and produced by John Grierson for the…

Travel Film Archive
The song of Ceylon 19-- GPO Film Unit ; a John Grierson production ; directed by Basil Wright ; commentary written by Robert Knox. 38 BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE
THE SONG OF CEYLON

This black and white documentary film about Ceylon (today called Sri Lanka) is a John Grierson…

1934 John Grierson Production Periscope Film
The Drifters

Written, directed and edited by John Grierson; photographed by Basil Emmott. This famous film was the…

1928 New Era Films Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
Song of Ceylon

…Directed by John Grierson., A lyrical impression of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and its people. A British…

G. Grierson Productions 44 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive +1
Seawards: the great ships

…one of the last films on which John Grierson was creatively credited, preparing the outline treatment…

Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Seawards The Great Ships

Presents shipbuilding on the Clyde River in Scotland. Shows how the flat plates of steel are…

1961 British Information Serv Film And Publication Division 29 min
Seawards the great ships

Of all the shipbuilding rivers, the Clyde in Scotland is the most versatile. Here, ships built…

1961 Sterling 26 New York Public Library
Rivers at work

…Narrated by John Grierson. Photography, Arthur Lavis and John Wiles. Editing, John Tanner. Sound, Ron Abbott.

Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Night Mail (1936)

…Narrated by John Grierson and Stuart Legg, the film ends with a "verse commentary" written by…

Night Mail 1936 University of Georgia Walter J Brown Media Archives and Peabody Collection
Night Mail

, The classic documentary of the dramatic journey of the Postal Special from London to Glasgow, Edinburgh…

1936 Contemporary Films 0:22:00 Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive +3
John Grierson

John Grierson’s address on the occasion of the “Thirty Years of the British Documentary” season…

Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Ism, Ism, Ism | Meta: Cinema Critiques Cinema

Film Series: Ism, Ism, Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America. Event: Meta: Cinema Critiques Cinema at…

UCLA Film & Television Archive
Industrial Britain

…Photographed by Robert Flaherty with additional photgraphy by Basil Wright, Arthur Elton and John Grierson. Edited…

Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Industrial Britain

Portrays the spirit of craftsmanship that persists in Great Britain despite the modern industrial world created…

1933 Pyramid 21 New York Public Library
I Remember... I Remember Part Two

We continue with a MS of the same older man (John Grierson) as he speaks about…

Films Incorporated Visual Education Center 800 ft. Oddball Film and Video
I Remember... I Remember Part One

MS of an older man (John Grierson) with glasses and a mustache sits at a desk…

Films Incorporated Visual Education Center 800 ft. Oddball Film and Video
I Remember, I Remember

1978 Church 58 min. Visual Studies Workshop
Hell unlimited

…School of Art, attracted the attention of John Grierson who later invited him to work in…

Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Has anybody here seen Canada?

…war years; Canada’s first Oscar; and John Grierson’s sudden demise as Canada’s driving…

Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Grierson

Reviews the life and work of filmmaker John Grierson, the father of documentary film. Uses film…

1973 National Film Board of Canada 57 New York Public Library
Grierson

An affectionate tribute to Dr. John Grierson, father of documentary film, who founded and led the…

Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Drifters

The only film ever directed personally by John Grierson. A documentary made for the Empire Marketing…

Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Drifters

…John Grierson Summary:"This silent film brought instant acclaim, both in Britain and abroad, to John…

1929 Empire Marketing Board Distributed exclusively by Image Entertainment United Kingdom United States 1929 Series:Great British Documentary Movement Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive
Buried treasure

…pit-head. “Supervised by the Coal Utilization Council in association with John Grierson and Arthur Elton”.

Australian Centre for the Moving Image

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