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  1. Blaze Atlantic Air Trail

    Date released
    7 Aug 1933
    Series name
    British Paramount News
    Issue no
    255
    NoS ID
    032775
    Story no
    2 / 6

    John Grierson takes off to survey commercial sky-route, Britain to US. Before hazardous hop, flyer explains how wireless will guide him.

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  2. Drifters/Caller Herrin’ (2002)

    Director
    John Grierson; Alan Harper
    Subject
    Agriculture; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0, 60 minutes), £19.99

    Two films on North Sea herring fleets. One is the classic John Grierson film DRIFTERS and the other was made in 1947 for the Scottish Home Department.

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  3. B.B.C. The Voice of Britain (1935 Film)

    Director
    Stuart Legg
    Producer
    John Grierson; Stuart Legg

    Documentary. Celebrated impressionist study of the work of the BBC. Includes scenes of a rehearsal for a radio broadcast of Macbeth, featuring the three witches, one of whom is played by documentary film...

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  4. Seawards the Great Ships (1960 Video)

    Director
    Hilary Harris
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £12.99 (inc. VAT +p&p)

    A testimony to the achievements of the shipbuilders on the Clyde and to the men of the ‘black squads’. Shows work from blueprint-making to the launching of the tanker ‘British Trust’. With treatment...

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  5. Brave Don’t Cry, The (1952)

    Director
    Philip Leacock
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 179 minutes), £16.33

    A reconstruction of a disaster at Knockshinnoch Castle Colliery, Ayrshire, in 1950, dramatises the tense events of the rescue of miners trapped underground after a pit shaft was flooded and nine men were...

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  6. Soviet Influence, The: Battleship Potemkin / Drifters (2012)

    Director
    Sergei Eisenstein; John Grierson
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 124 minutes), £19.99

    The second in the BFI’s series looking at the influence of silent Soviet films on British filmmakers of the 1930s pairs Sergei Eisenstein’s 1929 film BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (BRONENOSETS POTEMKIN) with John...

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  7. Colour Box, A (1935 Video)

    Director
    Len Lye
    Subject
    Film & television production; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. Dufaycolor. 4 min.

    Len Lye pioneered the technique of painting directly on to the film negative, and this is the first film that he brought to John Grierson. Grierson liked the film and told him to go away and paint the new...

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  8. Granton Trawler (1934 Video)

    Director
    John Grierson
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    Agriculture
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 11 min.

    Shows a trawler out fishing on the Viking Bank. ‘In the thirties we were all in it together,' Grierson said. ‘We could all edit well. We could all write well. There was no part we couldn’t do, even...

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  9. Mr Documentary

    Date released
    1968
    Series name
    London Line (Colour series 2)
    Issue no
    35
    NoS ID
    350236
    Story no
    3 / 3

    COI synopsis: London Line meets the man who invented the word, and the film form documentary. Michael Smee talks to Scotsman John Grierson in the London Line studio about some of his works which have become...

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  10. 30s Britain Volume 1: Granton Trawler (2006)

    Director
    John Grierson; Alberto Cavalcanti; Humphrey Jennings; Ralph Elton
    Subject
    Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 75 minutes), £12.99

    Collection of five films from the GPO Film Unit. ‘Granton Trawler’ (1934) directed by John Grierson. About a trawler fishing on the Viking Bank. ‘Coal Face’ (1935) directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. An...

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