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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. Addressing the Nation: Gpo Film Unit Volume 1 (2008)

    Director
    Alberto Cavalcanti; Len Lye; Humphrey Jennings; Basil Wright
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    History; Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 300 minutes), £24.99

    The first of three deluxe double-disc box sets presenting all the key films of the GPO Film Unit on DVD for the first time. The complete collection includes legendary filmmakers such as John Grierson, Len...

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  9. Children at School (1938 Film)

    Director
    Basil Wright
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The entire field of British juvenile education is covered, including experiments being conducted in progressive schools. The nursery school idea is explained and the Dalton Plan and Montessori theories...

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  10. Soviet Influence, The: From Turksib to Nightmail (2011)

    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 163 minutes), £19.99

    In the early 1930s, a small number of Soviet propaganda films were shown in Britain that excited filmmakers such as John Grierson, Paul Rotha and Basil Wright - luminaries of the British documentary film...

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