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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. Pett and Pott (1934 Film)

    Director
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    An experimental propaganda film made to encourage people to use the telephone. Equally it is a satire on suburban life and middle-class respectability. The film experiments with various sound techniques -...

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  4. Trade Tattoo (1937 Video)

    Director
    Len Lye
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. Technicolor. 6 min.

    A mixture of live action submerged in a sea of abstract patterns and line movements. The underlying theme is that to maintain the rhythm of workaday Britain one must post early in the day. Music played by...

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  5. Industrial Britain (1931 Video)

    Director
    Robert J Flaherty
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    History; Sociology; Technology
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 21 min.

    Looks at the craftsmanship involved in industrial processes. Shows both glassmaking and glassblowing for industrial and domestic use. In a steel works molten iron is poured into moulds. Steelwork is erected...

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  6. Song of Ceylon (1934 Film)

    Director
    Basil Wright
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    Anthropology; Economics
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    The traditional customs of the island of Ceylon are contrasted with the demands of western commerce. In four parts: 1) THE BUDDHA, deals with the legendary coming of Buddha to free the natives from their...

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  7. Scotland Calling: At the Empire Exhibition 1938 (1938)

    Subject
    Geography; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (154 minutes), £18.99

    A 2-DVD compilation of films made at and for the Empire Exhibition of 1938, which was held in Glasgow. DVD 1: Seven films made under the direction of John Grierson to spotlight Scotland: FACE OF SCOTLAND:...

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  8. Coal Face (1935 Video)

    Director
    Alberto Cavalcanti
    Producer
    John Grierson
    Subject
    History; Sociology
    Distribution
    Hire (film - BFI), Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 10 min.

    Coalmining in Britain in the 1930s - conditions and state of the industry in the economy at that time. Set to verse by W H Auden, with music by Benjamin Britten.

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  9. Land of Promise: The British Documentary Movement 1930 - 1950 (2008)

    Director
    Paul Rotha; Arthur Elton; Basil Wright; Humphrey Jennings
    Subject
    Film studies; History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 720 minutes), £34.99

    A collection of 40 films from the British documentary movement during its period of greatest influence. These films capture the spirit and strength, concerns and resolve of Britain and its people before,...

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  10. They Also Serve (1940 Film)

    Director
    Ruby Grierson
    Producer
    John Taylor
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A tribute to the British housewife. Set in the format of a day in the life of a ‘typical’ household, shows how the housewife/mother has in her own way contributed much to the war effort. Unlike many of...

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